No, it's not. At least not here in Germany. By law, even police officers are not allowed to look at child porn. The only institution explicitely allowed to do so is the BSI.
The rest of the population implicitely incriminates themselves when they look at (not own) child porn, including Apple's legal entity or employees.
See [1] for 184b Strafgesetzbuch
I'm trying to point out that with this action Apple bluntly decided to ignore a whole lot of countries and their federal laws, which is not something I would embrace - even when they had good intentions.
No, it's not. At least not here in Germany. By law, even police officers are not allowed to look at child porn. The only institution explicitely allowed to do so is the BSI.
The rest of the population implicitely incriminates themselves when they look at (not own) child porn, including Apple's legal entity or employees.
See [1] for 184b Strafgesetzbuch
I'm trying to point out that with this action Apple bluntly decided to ignore a whole lot of countries and their federal laws, which is not something I would embrace - even when they had good intentions.
[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__184b.html