[HN Gopher] FaceTime in iOS 26 will freeze your call if someone ...
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       FaceTime in iOS 26 will freeze your call if someone starts
       undressing
        
       Author : greenie_beans
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2025-07-02 20:59 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (9to5mac.com)
        
       | bigyabai wrote:
       | You know, I'd really rather not have an AI model trained on
       | detecting people stripping naked on any of my webcam-enabled
       | devices.
        
         | mikece wrote:
         | So... use Signal or Telegram?
        
           | bigyabai wrote:
           | Will that delete the model? Can my consent be used to stop
           | this functionality from being downloaded, besides buying a
           | new phone?
        
       | bigyarnn wrote:
       | Can we have a European version, that freezes if someone shows
       | violence? Nobody cares about nudity.
        
       | mathiaspoint wrote:
       | That's so creepy. The machine shouldn't care.
        
       | F7F7F7 wrote:
       | Jefferey Toobin would have loved this feature during COVID.
        
       | lofaszvanitt wrote:
       | Maybe it's time to start a movement, that educates people to
       | ditch the control/oppressive device from their back pockets and
       | be satisfied with a more modest but open system in every respect.
       | All the top tier phones look and feel the same. Everything is
       | locked down, you can't customize anything, everything needs a
       | payment. Ridiculous.
        
       | TexanFeller wrote:
       | At most I could accept if this were a feature for children's
       | accounts that parents could choose to enable. I'm not sure I'm Ok
       | with even that though because slippery slopes quite often start
       | with " think of the children".
       | 
       | Audio/Video/Chat services should probably be demanded(maybe even
       | required by law) to be dumb pipes that never filter ANYTHING.
        
       | shaky-carrousel wrote:
       | > In other words, everything happens on-device so Apple has no
       | idea about the contents of your call.
       | 
       | Of course. And we have to trust that it is true and won't change
       | depending on country and/or target.
        
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