Apple wants to scan pictures on your iPhone to fight child abuse. What does it mean for your privacy?

Apple unveiled a plan two weeks ago founded in good intentions: Root out images of child sexual abuse from iPhones.

But as is often the case when changes are made to digital privacy and security, technology experts quickly identified the downside. Apple’s approach to scanning people’s private photos could give law enforcement authorities and governments a new way to surveil citizens and persecute dissidents. Once one chip in privacy armor is identified, anyone can attack it, they argued.