Because Apple (its employees) aren't actually viewing the images, nor transmitting them. They mention somewhere that it's a low res proxy of the image, or something similar.

But wouldn't a low res image of CP be still classified as CP ? I guess the manual verification will ve done as a joint venture by apple and the authorities

> I guess the manual verification will ve done as a joint venture by apple and the authorities

Do we know this for sure? And even if it is, this is still apparently illegal under current law.

> They mention somewhere that it's a low res proxy of the image, or something similar.

Perceptual hashes are just integer/byte encodings of images that were scaled down and had some transformations applied to them.

If you convert a hash into an array of pixels and reverse the transformations, you'll get some of the original image that was scaled down and hashed.

And if you then apply DLSS, you may even get the original image.