<story><title>Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests?</title><url>https://twitter.com/msmelchen/status/1597807914395500545</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmoak3</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s hard to know for sure if this is real, but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised.&lt;p&gt;If this is happening, I hope Apple says no to the CCP when they inevitably ask Apple to do the same.&lt;p&gt;Could Apple use that new CSAM-hash-comparison feature to accomplish something similar?&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;child-safety&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;CSAM_Detection_Technical_Summary.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;child-safety&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;CSAM_Detection_Techni...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nevermind - it looks to me like this mechanism is just for letting Apple know if they should pop open an encrypted image stored on their Cloud.&lt;p&gt;In the case of China, they should already be able to do that with impunity since they control the regional iCloud and keys&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2:&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d also not be surprised if this was false however - I don&amp;#x27;t own a Huawei phone and I&amp;#x27;m not located in China, so I can&amp;#x27;t verify this at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>The same Apple that censors the Taiwan flag emoji[1]?&lt;p&gt;Apple will do whatever the CCP tells them to do because they are not willing to lose a market of a billion+ potential customers.&lt;p&gt;Companies have no problem being complicit in enabling authoritarianism as long as it&amp;#x27;s profitable.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;7&amp;#x2F;20903613&amp;#x2F;apple-hiding-taiwan-flag-emoji-hong-kong-macau-china&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;7&amp;#x2F;20903613&amp;#x2F;apple-hiding-tai...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests?</title><url>https://twitter.com/msmelchen/status/1597807914395500545</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmoak3</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s hard to know for sure if this is real, but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised.&lt;p&gt;If this is happening, I hope Apple says no to the CCP when they inevitably ask Apple to do the same.&lt;p&gt;Could Apple use that new CSAM-hash-comparison feature to accomplish something similar?&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;child-safety&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;CSAM_Detection_Technical_Summary.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;child-safety&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;CSAM_Detection_Techni...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nevermind - it looks to me like this mechanism is just for letting Apple know if they should pop open an encrypted image stored on their Cloud.&lt;p&gt;In the case of China, they should already be able to do that with impunity since they control the regional iCloud and keys&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2:&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d also not be surprised if this was false however - I don&amp;#x27;t own a Huawei phone and I&amp;#x27;m not located in China, so I can&amp;#x27;t verify this at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>develatio</author><text>Apple already applied a change in how AirDrop works in China[0]. It&amp;#x27;s fair enough to assume that they won&amp;#x27;t say &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; to the CCP.&lt;p&gt;[0] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;apple-restricted-airdrop-capabilities-in-china-ahead-of-protests-2022-11&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;apple-restricted-airdrop-cap...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>