Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Apple's iCloud and iOS services allowed their users to store and share child sex abuse materials, West Virginia's attorney general said in a lawsuit filed Thursday.
The consumer protection lawsuit in West Virginia's Circuit Court of Mason County is the first filed against Apple for alleged distribution of child sex abuse materials and names Apple Inc. as the only defendant.
"Preserving the privacy of child predators is absolutely inexcusable, and, more importantly, it violates West Virginia law," West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey said in a news release.
"Since Apple has so far refused to police themselves and do the morally right thing, I am filing this lawsuit to demand Apple follow the law, report these images and stop re-victimizing children by allowing these images to be stored and shared."
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