But Apple’s privacy-first approach gained plenty of fans in the process. Apple spent years trying to design a system to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material on iPhones and iCloud.

Ontario school board lawsuits against social media giants including Meta, Snapchat and TikTok are seeking damages— money paid as a remedy—for the disruption of the educational system.

Neither prospective school board social media lawsuit wins, nor proposed Ontario or federal privacy or AI legislation, would prevent problems related to rampant processing of human-derived data.