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Apple Pauses Child Porn Safety Feature After Privacy Concerns
 
Last month, Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, tried to soothe privacy concerns about one of the child safety features, which scans images uploaded to the iCloud storage service for potential matches to a database of known child abuse images. We thought he made it worse. So based on "feedback from customers, advocacy groups, researchers and others, Apple have decided to take additional time over the coming months to collect input and make improvements," according to a statement to 9to5Mac.