{"id":17946,"date":"2024-12-08T14:53:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T15:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17946"},"modified":"2024-12-08T16:34:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T16:34:02","slug":"apple-faces-lawsuit-over-child-sexual-abuse-material-on-icloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17946","title":{"rendered":"Apple Faces Lawsuit Over Child Sexual Abuse Material on iCloud"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The abuse began when she was still an infant. A relative molested her, took photographs and swapped the images with others online. He allowed another man to spend time with her, multiplying the abuse.<\/p>\n

Nearly every day, the woman, now 27 and living in the Northeast, is reminded of that abuse with a law enforcement notice that someone has been charged with possessing those images. One of those notifications, which she received in late 2021, said the images had been found on a man\u2019s MacBook in Vermont. Her lawyer later confirmed with law enforcement that the images had also been stored in Apple\u2019s iCloud.<\/p>\n

The notice arrived months after Apple had unveiled a tool that allowed it to scan for illegal images of sexual abuse. But it quickly abandoned that tool after facing criticism from cybersecurity experts, who said it could pave the way to other government surveillance requests.<\/p>\n

Now, the woman, using a pseudonym, is suing Apple because she says it broke its promise to protect victims like her. Instead of using the tools that it had created to identify, remove and report images of her abuse, the lawsuit says, Apple allowed that material to proliferate, forcing victims of child sexual abuse to relive the trauma that has shaped their lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The lawsuit was filed late Saturday in U.S. District Court in Northern California. It says Apple\u2019s failures mean it has been selling defective products that harmed a class of customers, namely child sexual abuse victims, because it briefly introduced \u201ca widely touted improved design aimed at protecting children\u201d but \u201cthen failed to implement those designs or take any measures to detect and limit\u201d child sexual abuse material. <\/p>\n

The suit seeks to change Apple\u2019s practices and compensate a potential group of 2,680 victims who are eligible to be part of the case, said James Marsh, one of the attorneys involved. Under law, victims of child sexual abuse are entitled to a minimum of $150,000 in damages, which means the total award, with the typical tripling of damages being sought, could exceed $1.2 billion should a jury find Apple liable.<\/p>\n

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The abuse began when she was still an infant. A relative molested her, took photographs and swapped the images with others online. He allowed another man to spend time with her, multiplying the abuse.Nearly every day, the woman, now 27 and living in the Northeast, is reminded of that abuse with a law enforcement notice that someone has been charged with possessing those images. One of those notifications, which she received in late 2021, said the images had been found on a man\u2019s MacBook in Vermont. Her lawyer later confirmed with law enforcement that the images had also been stored in Apple\u2019s iCloud.The notice arrived months after Apple had unveiled a tool that allowed it to scan for illegal images of sexual abuse. But it quickly abandoned that tool after facing criticism from cybersecurity experts, who said it could pave the way to other government surveillance requests.Now, the woman, using a pseudonym, is suing Apple because she says it broke its promise to protect victims like her. Instead of using the tools that it had created to identify, remove and report images of her abuse, the lawsuit says, Apple allowed that material to proliferate, forcing victims of child sexual abuse to relive the trauma that has shaped their lives.The lawsuit was filed late Saturday in U.S. District Court in Northern California. It says Apple\u2019s failures mean it has been selling defective products that harmed a class of customers, namely child sexual abuse victims, because it briefly introduced \u201ca widely touted improved design aimed at protecting children\u201d but \u201cthen failed to implement those designs or take any measures to detect and limit\u201d child sexual abuse material. The suit seeks to change Apple\u2019s practices and compensate a potential group of 2,680 victims who are eligible to be part of the case, said James Marsh, one of the attorneys involved. Under law, victims of child sexual abuse are entitled to a minimum of $150,000 in damages, which means the total award, with the typical tripling of damages being sought, could exceed $1.2 billion should a jury find Apple liable.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17948,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17949,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17946\/revisions\/17949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}