Detecting language using up to the first 30 seconds. Use `--language` to specify the language Detected language: English [00:00.000 --> 00:06.040] A couple of weeks ago, headlines like this were splashed all over the media. [00:06.040 --> 00:10.760] Apple is trying to redefine what it means to violate your privacy. [00:10.760 --> 00:16.120] The narrative is, if you own an Apple device, Apple is going to start scanning the contents [00:16.120 --> 00:26.840] of your device without your permission, but is that true? [00:26.840 --> 00:38.240] The Dr. Reality Vodcast with Dave Champion. [00:38.240 --> 00:43.240] Is it true that if you own an Apple device, Apple is going to start rummaging around in [00:43.240 --> 00:44.240] your device? [00:44.240 --> 00:45.240] No. [00:45.240 --> 00:46.240] That's absolutely false. [00:46.240 --> 00:52.280] I'm going to start by laying out the facts, and then I want to share with you my opinion [00:52.280 --> 00:54.880] what I believe Apple is up to. [00:54.880 --> 01:01.200] There are two facets to what Apple announced that has been so horribly misinterpreted and [01:01.200 --> 01:02.200] misunderstood. [01:02.200 --> 01:03.200] I really don't know who's at fault. [01:03.200 --> 01:07.720] I don't know whether Apple did a really piss poor job at rolling this out and wasn't communicative [01:07.720 --> 01:13.080] enough about what was really taking place, or no matter how great a job they did, these [01:13.080 --> 01:17.280] sites that wanted to click beta headlines were going to say whatever they wanted to [01:17.280 --> 01:20.360] say, no matter how clear Apple was. [01:20.360 --> 01:22.320] Apple's new policy involves two things. [01:22.320 --> 01:24.040] Number one, iCloud. [01:24.040 --> 01:27.680] Number two, phones registered to children. [01:27.680 --> 01:30.400] Let's start with the iCloud. [01:30.400 --> 01:36.200] Apple is going to start scanning images that have been uploaded to iCloud, and they're [01:36.200 --> 01:43.000] going to scan it against or to compare those images to the child sexual abuse material [01:43.000 --> 01:45.640] database maintained by the government. [01:45.640 --> 01:49.220] The government's going to give Apple access to that database. [01:49.220 --> 01:55.620] Images can be attributed a digital signature so that when Apple goes through and scans [01:55.620 --> 02:01.700] iCloud, images that are on iCloud, it can match those digital signatures. [02:01.700 --> 02:07.900] If somebody's uploading kiddie porn to Apple iCloud, Apple's going to call the cops, and [02:07.900 --> 02:08.900] that's going to start an investigation. [02:08.900 --> 02:11.500] That person's probably going to go to jail. [02:11.500 --> 02:17.180] This is essentially Apple saying, this is our cloud. [02:17.180 --> 02:18.220] We maintain it. [02:18.220 --> 02:19.420] We created it. [02:19.420 --> 02:21.020] This is not your cloud. [02:21.020 --> 02:25.340] We charge you a fee and allow you to upload some things to it, but it's our cloud. [02:25.340 --> 02:28.500] We don't want your kiddie porn on it, so keep it off. [02:28.500 --> 02:32.580] If you own an Apple device, do you have to upload whatever to the iCloud? [02:32.580 --> 02:38.020] No, you have to upload absolutely nothing to iCloud. [02:38.020 --> 02:39.020] For instance, I'm going to continue. [02:39.020 --> 02:43.380] I use the iCloud in particular, and I'm going to continue to upload to iCloud because I [02:43.380 --> 02:46.220] don't have anything to do with kiddie porn, and I don't care. [02:46.220 --> 02:53.460] If Apple is scanning its own cloud for images of child pornography, it's just not an issue [02:53.460 --> 03:00.460] for me, nor do I think it constitutes any violation of the privacy of Apple device owners. [03:00.460 --> 03:01.460] That's ridiculous. [03:01.460 --> 03:03.020] That's clickbait crap. [03:03.020 --> 03:10.900] The second part of the equation is scanning messages from or to phones that are registered [03:10.900 --> 03:12.620] to minors. [03:12.620 --> 03:16.860] To be clear, Apple is not reading anybody's messages. [03:16.860 --> 03:21.420] It is looking for sexually explicit images. [03:21.420 --> 03:29.500] If its AI detects sexually explicit photographs, then that image is going to be reviewed by [03:29.500 --> 03:32.700] the appropriate live human person. [03:32.700 --> 03:38.780] Depending on the age of the person who is the registered user of the phone and what [03:38.780 --> 03:44.060] the image depicts will determine whether Apple will notify the parents or notify the [03:44.060 --> 03:45.060] police. [03:45.060 --> 03:50.940] Also, I think this is a huge part of the story that's been left out. [03:50.940 --> 03:56.340] Parents can opt out the phone that their kids are using. [03:56.340 --> 04:02.220] Even though it's registered on Apple's database as to say a 14-year-old son or daughter, [04:02.220 --> 04:06.060] the parents can say, I don't want Apple looking at the stuff that my kid is sending. [04:06.620 --> 04:11.540] If it were me, I'd leave it in there because if there's some crazy sexually explicit stuff [04:11.540 --> 04:15.220] that like a 13-year-old or 14-year-old is sending back and forth, yeah, I might want [04:15.220 --> 04:16.380] to know about it. [04:16.380 --> 04:19.500] I consider that a part of responsible parenting. [04:19.500 --> 04:25.700] Because this is limited to minors and parents can opt that phone or phones out, again, it's [04:25.700 --> 04:27.220] not a privacy violation. [04:27.220 --> 04:29.540] You can opt in or opt out. [04:29.540 --> 04:33.640] We've covered iCloud and phones registered to minors. [04:33.640 --> 04:37.040] What else is Apple going to be looking at? [04:37.040 --> 04:38.040] Absolutely nothing. [04:38.040 --> 04:40.520] And that's not ever a part of the story. [04:40.520 --> 04:45.240] Not only are most of these stories not being explicit about the iCloud angle and about [04:45.240 --> 04:51.760] the registration to a user who is a minor, they're also painting this picture, like I [04:51.760 --> 04:56.080] said at the beginning, that Apple's just going to go into the devices owned by Apple users [04:56.080 --> 04:57.920] and just start rummaging around through their content. [04:57.920 --> 04:59.640] And that is absolutely false. [04:59.640 --> 05:04.960] It is images uploaded to iCloud and it is messages, not content generally on the phone, [05:04.960 --> 05:09.360] messages going into or out of a phone registered to a minor and parents can opt out. [05:09.360 --> 05:11.480] All right, so those are the facts. [05:11.480 --> 05:13.040] On to my opinion. [05:13.040 --> 05:14.040] My opinion is this. [05:14.040 --> 05:16.480] I think Apple's being really smart about this. [05:16.480 --> 05:19.000] Let me explain why. [05:19.000 --> 05:23.880] If you've paid attention for years now to how the government views encryption, most [05:23.880 --> 05:29.120] specifically on Apple devices because Apple has been so privacy minded, federal law enforcement [05:29.120 --> 05:34.880] agencies in particular, things like the DOJ and FBI and other three letter alphabet agencies [05:34.880 --> 05:40.480] of the federal government, they really want Apple to back off on the privacy issue. [05:40.480 --> 05:43.320] And Apple's basically just said no. [05:43.320 --> 05:48.320] Legislation has recently been introduced in the Senate to force Apple to put in a backdoor, [05:48.320 --> 05:49.320] but it looks like that's going nowhere. [05:49.320 --> 05:52.860] Fortunately, it looks like it's never even going to get out of committee. [05:52.860 --> 05:57.760] But nevertheless, you see the pressure that some legislatures want to apply against Apple [05:58.000 --> 06:02.880] and other high tech companies to make sure that users don't have privacy. [06:02.880 --> 06:10.360] I don't think very many Americans have a problem with encryption based privacy. [06:10.360 --> 06:14.640] Users on a device communicating in some way with somebody else with another device and [06:14.640 --> 06:16.680] that's encrypted and nobody can see it. [06:16.680 --> 06:21.440] I don't think Americans really care about that unless or until the government and the [06:21.440 --> 06:27.680] media start screaming at the top of their lungs that this end to end encryption is empowering [06:27.840 --> 06:32.360] Child pornographers, I think the minute that starts getting whipped into a frenzy, I mean [06:32.360 --> 06:37.240] look at the last 19 months with SARS-CoV-2, in my life, I wake up in the morning, I go [06:37.240 --> 06:41.040] about my life, I go out in the community, I interact with people, you wouldn't even [06:41.040 --> 06:44.560] know anything was going on in this country, but the minute you go to the news, oh my god [06:44.560 --> 06:48.120] SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, the vaccines are all going to die, oh my god, oh my god, oh my [06:48.120 --> 06:49.920] god. [06:49.920 --> 06:54.960] But in the real world, you can go about your life for days and days and days on end and [06:55.040 --> 06:59.600] perhaps for the rest of your existence and never really be cognizant that SARS-CoV-2 [06:59.600 --> 07:03.720] is around until you tune into the media because it's a frenzy. [07:03.720 --> 07:07.760] So now imagine SARS-CoV-2 is over and the media wants something else to turn into a [07:07.760 --> 07:08.760] frenzy. [07:08.760 --> 07:12.400] Suddenly they start screaming that companies like Apple with their end to end encryption [07:12.400 --> 07:18.680] are protecting and facilitating child pornography and child pornographers. [07:18.680 --> 07:23.640] Wow, can you imagine, again, I think don't, I don't think most Americans have a problem [07:23.640 --> 07:28.800] with the end to end encryption and the privacy that it provides until it is characterized [07:28.800 --> 07:34.440] and whipped into a frenzy that that is empowering and facilitating child pornography and child [07:34.440 --> 07:35.440] pornographers. [07:35.440 --> 07:41.520] I think at that point, a lot of Americans would be willing to support legislation forcing [07:41.520 --> 07:43.720] companies like Apple to put a back door in. [07:43.720 --> 07:48.720] So with all that said, when I said Apple's being smart about this, it's because I believe [07:48.920 --> 07:54.140] what Apple is doing is taking that argument away from Congress, taking that argument away [07:54.140 --> 07:55.660] from the media. [07:55.660 --> 08:00.400] Is what Apple is doing with iCloud and with phones registered to minors, is that going [08:00.400 --> 08:07.280] to solve the entire equation about any criminals, child pornographers or any other form of criminals [08:07.280 --> 08:12.160] relying on end to end encryption on devices such as Apple to do their nefarious deeds? [08:12.160 --> 08:14.400] No, it's not a perfect solution. [08:14.400 --> 08:20.360] But I believe from Apple's point of view, Apple is taking a lot of wind out of the sales [08:20.360 --> 08:27.800] of any legislators in Congress who would want to make that argument and then various news [08:27.800 --> 08:33.120] organizations that would want to whip that into a frenzy and manipulate the American [08:33.120 --> 08:38.800] people into supporting legislation forcing companies like Apple to put a back door in [08:38.800 --> 08:40.120] for the government. [08:40.120 --> 08:45.000] I'm well aware there are tons of idiots out there who are going to say things like, well, [08:45.000 --> 08:49.200] if you have nothing to hide, what do you care if you don't have any privacy? [08:49.200 --> 08:52.520] That's like saying because you have nothing to say, you shouldn't care if the government [08:52.520 --> 08:53.680] eradicates free speech. [08:53.680 --> 08:55.920] Yeah, it's just idiot talk. [08:55.920 --> 08:59.680] The other reason I think it's smart of Apple to do this at this time, take the wind out [08:59.680 --> 09:03.760] of the sales of at least a portion of the argument that could be used by legislators [09:03.760 --> 09:09.840] in Congress is that the government, if there was a back door, the government would absolutely [09:09.960 --> 09:13.840] positively, inarguably, without a shadow of a doubt, misuse it. [09:13.840 --> 09:19.160] Remember, we are talking about a government that was essentially vacuuming up every single [09:19.160 --> 09:24.880] community or damn near every single communication on the planet and then sitting down in front [09:24.880 --> 09:32.300] of Congress under oath and lying and say they weren't doing that until Snowden's information [09:32.300 --> 09:33.300] became public. [09:33.300 --> 09:37.880] Then we found out not only were they doing it, they knew it was wrong and they were lying [09:37.880 --> 09:39.120] about it. [09:39.120 --> 09:48.240] There are a lot of instances that we can look at, virtually endless examples of the government [09:48.240 --> 09:54.240] engaging in illegal activity, going far afield to the boundaries that the Constitution imposes [09:54.240 --> 09:55.360] on them. [09:55.360 --> 10:02.480] When you look at all these examples, the net result is nobody should ever trust the government. [10:02.480 --> 10:07.120] The default position when dealing with it, especially the federal government, the default [10:07.120 --> 10:12.640] position, every single thing, every single issue that they talk about and that you hear [10:12.640 --> 10:19.120] or see, every single one the default position should be, you're lying until you can prove [10:19.120 --> 10:20.560] otherwise. [10:20.560 --> 10:21.920] That's how much they lie. [10:21.920 --> 10:24.920] I am well known for the expression, the government lies, lies all the time and lies even when [10:24.920 --> 10:26.960] the truth would serve it well. [10:26.960 --> 10:29.960] That's why it needs to be the default setting for every American. [10:29.960 --> 10:32.800] Sadly, it's not, but it needs to be the default setting for every single American. [10:32.800 --> 10:37.280] The minute the government says something, the default setting in the minds of 333 million [10:37.280 --> 10:40.640] Americans needs to be, okay, let's start with this government, you're lying. [10:40.640 --> 10:43.800] So unless you can prove to me you're telling the truth, you are lying. [10:43.800 --> 10:48.040] I think a lot of Americans don't like that because it makes them uncomfortable. [10:48.040 --> 10:51.520] It's true and that is the position that every single American should have in their mind [10:51.520 --> 10:56.560] concerning the federal government, but I think a lot of Americans, on some level they know [10:56.560 --> 11:01.440] it, but it's really uncomfortable for them to accept it. [11:01.440 --> 11:05.760] They don't really want to get in touch with the fact that the government lies to them [11:05.760 --> 11:06.800] all the time about everything. [11:06.800 --> 11:08.640] That's really uncomfortable. [11:08.640 --> 11:17.760] There is one thing any and every American can do to convince them for the rest of their [11:17.760 --> 11:26.760] lives that the government can never be trusted and that is to read income tax shattering [11:26.760 --> 11:28.800] the myth. [11:28.800 --> 11:35.800] Income tax shattering the myth is the product of 17 years of in-depth legal research. [11:35.800 --> 11:37.080] It's been out 11 years. [11:37.080 --> 11:40.880] I think a universal response, I mean obviously I haven't talked to all the thousands and [11:40.880 --> 11:44.000] thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people who read income tax shattering [11:44.000 --> 11:49.840] the myth, but I'm pretty sure a universal response when they close that final page is [11:49.840 --> 11:57.800] I will never, ever trust the federal government again. [11:57.800 --> 12:00.920] Because what comes through loud and clear in income tax shattering the myth is that [12:00.920 --> 12:04.000] the government knows Congress hasn't imposed the income tax on the average American who [12:04.000 --> 12:06.920] just gets up in the morning, goes out and earns a living. [12:06.920 --> 12:10.960] That's not even remotely who Congress has imposed the income tax upon. [12:10.960 --> 12:17.000] But that's the government and now sadly society narrative, false narrative, concerning the [12:17.000 --> 12:18.240] income tax. [12:18.240 --> 12:22.080] One of the things that is crystal clear when you close that final page of income tax shattering [12:23.080 --> 12:30.960] is that this lie, this massive theft of property from the American people, what I refer to [12:30.960 --> 12:36.040] as the largest financial crime in the history of the world has been ongoing for more than [12:36.040 --> 12:44.280] 100 years and executive agencies such as the Department of Justice, the IRS, Treasury, [12:44.280 --> 12:50.040] they know what Congress has and has not done and they knowingly, willfully and intentionally [12:50.200 --> 12:53.680] promote the false narrative to commit the largest financial crime in the history of [12:53.680 --> 12:54.920] the world. [12:54.920 --> 12:59.240] So when you get to the final page and you close it and you realize, holy cow, now that [12:59.240 --> 13:03.600] I've seen the law, now that I've seen the history from 1895 forward, I've seen what [13:03.600 --> 13:07.080] the Congressional Research Services said, I've seen what the internal documents that [13:07.080 --> 13:11.320] the IRS never thought would get out actually say, and Treasury decisions and Treasury orders [13:11.320 --> 13:17.160] and so forth, when you see all of that laid out and it all says the same thing, which [13:17.160 --> 13:22.280] is the vast majority of Americans don't owe income tax, when you see all that and you [13:22.280 --> 13:30.480] get to the end, you say the government has and is committing the largest financial crime [13:30.480 --> 13:32.400] in the history of the world. [13:32.400 --> 13:38.480] So when you get to that point where you acknowledge that, why would you ever trust the federal [13:38.480 --> 13:41.840] government about anything? [13:41.840 --> 13:46.280] If you want to find out the truth that I've just expressed to you, go to DrReality.News, [13:46.280 --> 13:49.480] grab yourself a copy of Income Tax Shattered the Mist. [13:49.480 --> 13:51.280] When you're done with it, you're going to be thrilled that you bought it. [13:51.280 --> 13:53.880] It's one of the most intriguing, fascinating books you will ever read. [13:53.880 --> 13:58.520] But there's that expression, the truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. [13:58.520 --> 14:01.240] Yeah, so that's going to be your experience. [14:01.240 --> 14:03.800] But if you're up for that, DrReality.News. [14:03.800 --> 14:11.880] Thanks for being here.