Epic Games CEO slams Apple ‘government spyware’: Report

San Francisco: Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has attacked Apple over its iCloud Photos and messages child safety initiatives, putting forward the idea of it being a way for governments to conduct surveillance.

As part of the outpouring of criticism against Apple, Sweeney took to Twitter to complain about Apple’s initiative, reports AppleInsider.

“I’ve tried hard to see this from Apple’s point of view,” Sweeney wrote on Twitter.

“But inescapably, this is government spyware installed by Apple based on a presumption of guilt. Though Apple wrote the code, its function is to scan personal data and report it to the government,” he added.