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Apple should scan iPhones for child abuse images, says scanning technology inventor | Apple

HerbertJuly 31, 202207 mins

Apple should take heed of warnings from the UK’s security services and revive its controversial plans to scan iPhones for child abuse imagery, the inventor of the scanning technology has argued. Prof Hany Farid, an expert in image analysis at University of California, Berkeley, is the inventor of PhotoDNA, an “image hashing” technique used by…

As fentanyl flows across Mexico border, CBP tries powerful scanning technology

HerbertFebruary 14, 2022013 mins

With fatal drug overdose deaths in the United States soaring to record levels, Congress has directed CBP to come up with a plan to scan 100 percent of arriving vehicles. Here and across the U.S. southern border, the agency is preparing to roll out new “nonintrusive” inspection systems to screen significantly more trucks. Story continues…