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External verifiability by security researchers is a transparency and accountability mechanism: it means Apple's PCC guarantees cannot rest solely on Apple's self-attestation but must be independently confirmable.
Interpretive note: The clause uses 'need to be able to,' which is a design or policy requirement rather than a statement of currently achieved capability. The mechanism by which this verifiability is achieved is not described in the excerpt.
Apple Intelligence's design requires that independent security researchers must be able to verify that the privacy and security protections in PCC actually match what Apple has publicly promised.
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External verifiability by security researchers is a transparency and accountability mechanism: it means Apple's PCC guarantees cannot rest solely on Apple's self-attestation but must be independently confirmable.
Apple Intelligence's design requires that independent security researchers must be able to verify that the privacy and security protections in PCC actually match what Apple has publicly promised.
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