A lawsuit filed against Apple Inc. by West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey alleges the company knew its iCloud platform was being used to distribute and store child sexual abuse material and did nothing about it.
McCuskey said in a press conference the lawsuit said Apple in its own internal communications described itself as the “greatest platform for distributing child porn,” but failed to stop it.
“Preserving the privacy of child predators is absolutely inexcusable. And more importantly, it violates West Virginia law. 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,” McCuskey said.
The consumer protection complaint, filed in the Circuit Court of Mason County, is the first lawsuit of its kind brought by a governmental agency against Apple over CSAM (Child Abuse Sexual Material) distribution.
McCuskey ‘s office is seeking statutory and punitive damages, injunctive relief requiring Apple to implement effective CSAM detection measures, and equitable remedies mandating safer product design going forward.
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