https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Privacy News feed https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/apple-reference-image-provenance/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Privacy-news <img src="https://www.infoq.com/styles/static/images/logo/logo_bigger.jpg"/><p>Apple has published the design of Reference Image, an iPhone 18 Pro camera mode that signs pixel data at the sensor and develops it in Private Cloud Compute under an Apple signature. Developers on Hacker News and Reddit challenged what it proves, raising photographing a screen, the anonymity guarantee's dependence on Apple's cloud, and whether identity verification is the right use case.</p> <i>By Steef-Jan Wiggers</i> Apple Privacy Cryptography Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Architecture AI, ML & Data Engineering Development Architecture & Design news Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:50:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/apple-reference-image-provenance/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Privacy-news Steef-Jan Wiggers 2026-09-24T05:50:00Z /news/2026/09/apple-reference-image-provenance/en