Digital content and surveillance rules: Apple scanning and UK porn law
Apple will reportedly scan public iCloud content for harmful material, and the UK's new porn-possession offences take effect Nov 6.
What we know
An account on X jokes about Apple's reported iCloud scanning with the 27.3 update. Another account on X says the Crime and Policing Act 2026 criminalizes possessing or publishing certain porn categories from Nov 6 in England and Wales.
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