Apple has confirmed that it's automatically scanning images backed up to iCloud to ferret out child abuse images.

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 09:01:42 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote:

UPDATE (dated today):
o Search warrant shows how Apple tackles [scanning] images on iCloud and email
https://9to5mac.com/2020/02/11/child-abuse-images/

This article has additional details as to what Apple's process might be.

On 12 Nov 2020 19:59:21 GMT, Jolly Roger wrote:

*Everything put to the iCloud is read _and_ analyzed by Apple*
o Some of that is _automatically_ sent to law enforcement, unencrypted.

Cite, please!

You'll get no objective evidence to back up this asinine assertion,
because: troll.

o Apple has confirmed it's automatically scanning images backed up to
iCloud
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/VkODI4K1SC8

Adults on this newsgroup will note that all these Type III Apple
Apologists, e.g., Jolly Roger, Lewis, Alan Baker, Joerg Lorenz, etc.,
literally _hate_ what Apple does so much they deny all facts about Apple.

o Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive-idUSKBN1ZK1CT

Like flat earth cultists, Type III apologists simply deny the facts exist.

o Apple scans photos to check for child abuse
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/01/08/apple-scans-icloud-photos-check-child-abuse/

And yet, the facts exist to all but the apologists (as usual).
o Apple doesn't even dispute those facts.

It's only the Apple Apologists (who didn't even read the thread) who
dispute the facts were indisputable in the cites (Apple said they do it).

Details here (which the Type III apologists deny sans even reading):
o iCloud backups are NOT encrypted, by JF Mezei
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/-EA9TYUeVhk

Note: That thread contains the cites to reliable sources that the
apologists are clueless about because these Type III apologists are in
Quadrant I Dunning Kruger (they don't need any facts to form their belief
system which they're so very sure of, and yet, they're always dead wrong).
--
The Apple apologists simply deny all facts about Apple they don't like.

Why?
I don't know why.

I suspect they _hate_ what Apple is so by denying facts, they can maintain
their purely imaginary belief systems intact (like flat earth cultists).