Apple dumps ill-conceived plan to scan users’ iCloud photos in renewed privacy push

Apple is said to have dumped its ill-conceieved plan to scan users’ photos stored in iCloud for child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, amid a renewed privacy push.Bradford Betz for Fox Business:These safety tools, announced in August 2021, were meant to flag illicit content while preserving privacy. But the plans drew widespread criticism from digital rights groups who argued that the surveillance capabilities were ripe for potential abuse.Apple put the plans on pause a month later. Now, mo