Child abuse: Apple urged to roll out image-scanning tool swiftly

Exclusive: privacy concerns must not delay use of neuralMatch algorithm to protect victims of abuse'

Child protection experts from across the world have called on Apple to implement new scanning technologies urgently to detect images of child abuse.

In August, Apple announced plans to use a tool called neuralMatch to scan photos being uploaded to iCloud online storage and compare them to a database of known images of child abuse.