The National Center for Missing & Exploited ChildrenThe National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, or NCMEC, was going to be one of Apple’s partners for its image scanning system, with the center providing both the hashes of known CSAM images and assistance with reviewing anything the system found before contacting the authorities.The rest of the statement reads:We support privacy measures to keep personal data secure - yet privacy must be balanced with the reality that countless children are being sexually victimized online every day.“We’re very excited, and we’re counting this as a huge victory for our advocacy on behalf of user security, privacy, and human rights,” said Mallory Knodel, chief technology officer for the organization, talking about Apple’s cancellation announcement.“We applaud Apple for listening to experts, child advocates, and users who want to protect their most sensitive data.”Meanwhile, Fight for the Future’s Caitlin Seeley George called Apple’s announcement on Wednesday “a huge victory,” adding that “on-device scanning of messages and photos would have been incredibly dangerous — Apple would essentially have forced malware on its users, which would go completely against the company’s ‘pro-privacy’ marketing, would have broken end-to-end encryption, and would not have made anyone safer.”Knodel hinted, however, that the fight isn’t necessarily over.“As people who should be claiming part of this victory, we need to be really loud and excited about it, because you have, both in the EU and in the UK, two really prominent policy proposals to break encryption,” she said, referencing the Chat Control child safety directive and Online Safety Bill."