ICYMI: Nearly 2 years after walking back their disastrous iCloud spyware proposal - to discover any CSAM that lurks on your iPhone - Apple firmly & publicly slams the door on future requests for #ClientSideScanning, even under the #OnlineSafetyBill THREAD 🧵 twitter.com/matthew_d_gr...

The tone I’m reading (which could well be wrong) is this is the result of shifting politics within Apple. The faction that thought they could do it ultimately losing out to the faction appealing to leadership that it was a bad idea.