Frankly, it's more of a problem for my data to be flagged after Google has it than it would be for it to never leave my device at all.
People have certainly run afoul of the law when the data Google has about them is misused.
>Innocent man, 23, sues Arizona police for $1.5million after being arrested for murder and jailed for six days when Google's GPS tracker wrongly placed him at the scene of the 2018 crime
You are so close to understand the issue. When Google, or anyone else, is flagging it and sharing the result with, e.g., law enforcement you can have a problem. Apple will no just simply refuse to upload stuff that would be flagged in the cloud, it is flagging it already before upload on your device. And share the results with authorities. That for now they claim to only do so with stuff about to be uploaded is of minor concern, the tech is there to scan all the pictures on an iPhone now. No reason to believe it will stop with intended uploads, or pictures.
> Apple will no just simply refuse to upload stuff that would be flagged in the cloud, it is flagging it already before upload on your device. And share the results with authorities.
None of this is true. A sibling comment describes the process:
>1. Only if you're uploading files are the files matched. 2. Only if the matches are very close are they considered matches. 3. Only if you have multiple very close matches is Apple able to decrypt the low-res versions of the images themselves. 4. Only if a human reviewer discovers any of the decrypted low-res images to be illegal content is any of your information shared with anyone else.
People have certainly run afoul of the law when the data Google has about them is misused.
>Innocent man, 23, sues Arizona police for $1.5million after being arrested for murder and jailed for six days when Google's GPS tracker wrongly placed him at the scene of the 2018 crime
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7897319/Police-arre...
We are only talking about what happens when you try to send the data to the cloud, after all. Not about all the data on the device.