Hi there, I'm Ed Butler.

Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Today we're going to be looking at the latest moves by Apple to scan our iPhones for images of child abuse.

Is this the start of creeping incursions into all our most private content?

Now we're scanning for terrorist images, political imagery, something else that the

local government doesn't want, and the user has no ability to even know if anything that they're

uploading is being flagged. The battleground isn't just over phone data, though, but all encrypted

messaging platforms. How to strike a balance between privacy and children's security, for instance.

There are very keenly held and important privacy and free expression concerns that have been raised.

But children who are one in three internet users across the globe and who are inherently vulnerable need protection.

That's all to come in business daily from the BBC.

Right now, there is more private information on your phone than in your home.

Think about that.

The comforting words of a firm that says it's looking out for you.

So many details about your life right in your pocket.

This makes privacy more important now than ever.

This commercial from Apple, the maker of the iPhone, came out in 2019. It reflects its long-standing efforts to champion user security and privacy.

A few years back, Apple even publicly resisted the demands of US law enforcement to gain access to a known Islamist stored phone data.

It was a matter of principle, the firm argued, but times have changed

for the tech giant, it seems. Its latest software update in the US in the next few weeks is going

to automatically include scanning technology to survey all users' photographic imagery. It will

identify child sexual abuse material put onto the firm's cloud storage service.

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