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Apple responds to critics of CSAM scan plan with FAQs, says it'd block governments subverting its system

Boothy

Someone mentioned above that they are using PhotoDNA for the hashing.

This basically converts the image to grey scale, resizes it, splits it into a grid, and produces a 'hash' from each grid square.

So it's basically resistant to things like resizing and colour changes.

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