Notices by yProd (yprod@infosec.exchange)

@sneak Well, the CSAM scanning would report to Apple (which would forward to LEOs). From a privacy perspective, local analysis for local use is something completely different, and about as right or wrong as Spotlight “scanning” all your documents (to build a search index).

@sneak Live Text would come to mind, as one example. Maybe the image contains text you may want to copy?

@sneak Again, this being live text is a guess. If it is the cause, apparently, you can uncheck “Select text in images” in macOS's Language & Region settings to disable it.

Keep in mind this is not Apple somehow scanning your files, it is your own, local computer doing it (and with all results staying local). If you believe this is effectively the same, that's OK of course, but I'll have to respectfully disagree.

@sneak @bot@seal.cafe That doesn't really tell you anything. For example, this could be an attempt to make a one-time download of an ML model used for locally-running analysis, similar to how enabling certain voice processing features on iOS triggers a download of language models that will then be used on-device.