Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has launched further criticism of Apple's new Child Safety policies, calling the measures "government spyware".
Taking to Twitter Sweeney wrote:
I've tried hard to see this from Apple's point of view. But inescapably, this is government spyware installed by Apple based on a presumption of guilt. Though Apple wrote the code, its function is to scan personal data and report it to the government. This is entirely different from a content moderation system on a public forum or social medium. Before the operator chooses to host the data publicly, they can scan it for whatever they don't want to host. But this is peoples' private data.
