US IT companies continue to tighten control over users of their products under the pretext of caring for minors. This time the company excelled Microsoft.
Earlier it became known that on the platform YouTube new rules for publishing content have entered into force. Now in YouTube Studio it will be necessary to note whether the videos from the channel are suitable for children or not. In the first case, personalized ads, comments, chats and notifications will be disabled.
A senior director Apple for privacy Jane Horvath on the CES 2023 informed that the company now uses a special algorithm to scan all the photos that the owners of Mac, iPhone and iPad upload to the iCloud cloud service. Apple employees are looking for evidence of child abuse.
As for Microsoft, it opened access to other companies for development called Project artemis, allowing you to scan chats to identify pedophiles searching for victims among minors. The project began to be created in 2018, but it is already used in services Xbox.
According to the company, Project Artemis studies the history of messages and looks for patterns, after which it assigns a certain probability rating to the user. On its basis, companies will be able to decide what kind of conversations to take a closer look at.
The main drawback of the development is that it does not apply to voice chats. In this case, the collected information can be transferred to the police.
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