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No, it's a difference between scanning the files that users store in their respective clouds on-server or on-device.

Scanning on-device (where a single false positive cannot be subpoenaed and misused to incriminate their customers) is simply more private.

>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...




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