Apple’s #SpyPhone, an Apple App Store Settlement, and the Expansion of Government Facial Recognition Software — on DevNews!
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Published: 2021-09-03 00:41:52

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title: Apple’s #SpyPhone, an Apple App Store Settlement, and the Expansion of Government Facial Recognition Software — on DevNews!
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description: Listen to S5E7 of the DevNews pod!
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Listen to S5E7 of the DevNews podcast today!

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**Hosts:** @saronyitbarek & @joshpuetz 

**Guests:** 
- [Yafit Lev-Aretz](http://twitter.com/@LevAretz), Assistant Professor of Law at Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY 
- [Anunay Kulshrestha](http://twitter.com/@anunaykul), Doctoral Candidate in Computer Science at Princeton University, Center for Information Technology Policy  

In this episode, we talk about the the expansion of government facial recognition software and an Apple App store settlement. Then we speak with Yafit Lev-Aretz, assistant professor of law at Baruch College and the Director of Tech Ethics program at the Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity, about Apple scanning iCloud images and iMessages for child sexual abuse material. After we speak with Anunay Kulshrestha, Princeton Computer Science doctoral candidate, (whose team built a similar child sexual abuse material scanning system,) about the potential privacy and cybersecurity risks that implementing such a system creates.

We hope you enjoy this episode of [DevNews](dev.to/devnews)!


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#### _Acknowledgements_ 
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