Reuters reports that Apple has defeated a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing it of failing to stop child sexual abuse material from being stored and shared through iCloud. Here are the details.
Apple shielded by Section 230
U.S. District Judge Noël Wise has dismissed with prejudice a proposed class action filed in 2024, accusing Apple of “failing to stop the dissemination of child sexual abuse material through its iCloud data storage platform,” Reuters reports.
U.S. District Judge Noël Wise in San Jose, California, in a ruling late Monday, agreed with Apple’s argument that the company is immune from claims brought by plaintiffs who say Apple failed to take action to prevent images of their sexual abuse as children from being shared and stored on iCloud.
In the complaint, two survivors identified under the pseudonyms Amy and Jessica alleged that images of their childhood abuse continued to circulate through iCloud, and that Apple knowingly declined to use available tools to detect and report known CSAM.
