Apple says the collision is "not a concern". By which I assume they mean "we don't care."

They probably don't. To be fair, none of the links explicitly say the probabilities of collisions other than "perceptual hashes" are more prone.

Is it statistically significant? Don't know.

Would Apple have reason to give a damn, other than reducing false positives (i.e. money spent employing dirty humans for final manual verification as per their PR)? Probably not.

Is Apple and the government going to abuse this? Track record speaks for itself. We don't need proof of concepts to confirm the furthering of privacy degradation.

Edit: This is obviously a great thread and finding btw. I forgot to note that but it's especially important given recent crap littering the forum.

Apple says the collision is "not a concern". By which I assume they mean "we don't care."

They probably don't. To be fair, none of the links explicitly say the probabilities of collisions other than "perceptual hashes" are more prone.

Is it statistically significant? Don't know.

Would Apple have reason to give a damn, other than reducing false positives (i.e. money spent employing dirty humans for final manual verification as per their PR)? Probably not.

Is Apple and the government going to abuse this? Track record speaks for itself. We don't need proof of concepts to confirm the furthering of privacy degradation.