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@kbarker @timbray @briankrebs @mmasnick @Edent It’s certainly curious what `mediaanalysisd` is doing over the network, but it should have nothing to do with CSAM fingerprint checking. Apple’s original proposal for that was to do the fingerprint checking locally, on device. And regardless, Craig Federighi told Joanna Stern of the WSJ last month they shelved that whole plan: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/12/07/stern-federighi-icloud-e2ee

@gruber

Yeah, I can't see any reason this would have anything to do with that CSAM kerfuffle.

But my computer's phoning home every time I click on one of my pictures on my local disk, and I don't think it's unreasonable to find that disturbing.

@kbarker @briankrebs @mmasnick @Edent

@timbray @gruber @kbarker @briankrebs @mmasnick @Edent

Might be related to Visual Look Up? This blog post has some details: https://eclecticlight.co/2022/03/23/how-visual-look-up-works-in-detail-1-paintings-on-intel-and-m1-macs/

@timbray @gordonmb @gruber @kbarker @briankrebs @mmasnick @Edent This turns out to be the phone trying to recognize and categorize objects and people for later sorting. Stays on the phone. The empty call back to Apple is bug that is getting fixed.