9to5Mac has a pair of leaked memos sent to Apple employees internally. A memo from Sebastien Marineau-Mes, a Vice President of software at Apple, says there have been “misunderstandings”:
Marita Rodriguez, executive director of strategic partnerships at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which Apple is working closely with on the scanning feature, sent a memo to the Apple employees working on this feature encouraging them to disregard concerns about the implications of this feature:
This is obviously a difficult issue. It’s difficult to even write a piece like this, pointing out that a feature ostensibly created for good could have bad implications. Again: What happens when a country like China uses this feature to find people with images critical of the government? Why wouldn’t the industry want to start searching for pirated content on iPhones in a few years?
Our voices will be louder.
But, even as Apple says we people who are concerned have “misunderstandings” about what’s going on, disregarding us as a “screeching minority” isn’t going to calm us down.
