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Tag: Child Sexual Abuse Material

West Virginia sues Apple over iCloud’s alleged role in distribution of child sex abuse material

Thursday, February 19, 2026 1:27 pm7 Comments

Apple has been hit with a lawsuit from West Virginia over its iCloud service and child sexual abuse material (CSAM), but the company’s…

Apple explains its CSAM-scanning about-face: ‘Scanning for one type of content… opens the door for bulk surveillance’

Thursday, August 31, 2023 4:40 pm8 Comments

Apple killed an effort to design an iCloud photo scanning tool for detecting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in the storage service by…

Australian regulator miffed that Apple is not scanning users’ iCloud photos, videos, FaceTime chats

Thursday, December 15, 2022 10:35 am9 Comments

An Australian regulator, accused Apple and Microsoft of failing to preemptively scan users’ iCloud and OneDrive photos, videos, and…

Australia demands Apple, others share anti-CSAM steps, threatens fines

Tuesday, August 30, 2022 8:53 amTuesday, August 30, 20221 Comment

Australia sent s legal letter to Apple demanding they share their strategies for stamping out Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)…

Apple pushes iPhone users to iOS 15, iPad users to iPadOS 15

Wednesday, January 19, 2022 2:08 pm6 Comments

When Apple first unveiled iOS 15 and iPad OS 15, the company announced that the upgrade wouldn’t be compulsory for people who wanted to stay…

EFF: Apple must abandon, not just delay, its backdoor surveillance scheme

Thursday, December 23, 2021 5:00 pmThursday, December 23, 202121 Comments

The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Apple’s delay of a controversial backdoor to scan users’ photo libraries, ostensibly for…

Researchers: Apple’s delayed backdoor surveillance scheme doesn’t even work

Friday, November 12, 2021 2:26 pmFriday, November 12, 20216 Comments

A team of researchers have presented a simple method to evade detection by mechanisms such as Apple’s backdoor surveillance scheme…

EFF: Apple must abandon, not just delay, its backdoor surveillance scheme

Friday, October 22, 2021 5:48 pm16 Comments

The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Apple’s delay of a controversial backdoor to scan users’ photo libraries, ostensibly for…

Experts detail flaws in Apple’s backdoor surveillance scheme, call it ‘dangerous technology’

Friday, October 15, 2021 4:10 pmFriday, October 15, 202114 Comments

A scheme proposed by Apple to scan user’s digital storage repositories, conducting backdoor surveillance, ostensibly for evidence of …

EFF: Apple must abandon, not just delay, its backdoor surveillance plans

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 5:43 pm10 Comments

The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Apple’s plan to delay a controversial backdoor to scan users’ photo libraries, ostensibly for…

Pro-privacy protestors nationwide rally to tell Apple: “Don’t scan our iPhones!”

Friday, September 17, 2021 10:01 amFriday, September 17, 202113 Comments

This week in cities across the U.S., activists rallied at Apple stores demanding that the company cancel its plan to introduce surveillance …

Apple brass should wake up: Examining the personal contents of users’ iPhones is a mistake

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 2:44 pmWednesday, September 8, 202127 Comments

With protests against iPhone backdoor surveillance at multiple Apple Stores across America set for September 13th, Apple brass should wake up…

Fight for the Future to hold protests against iPhone backdoor surveillance at Apple Stores on Sept. 13th

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 10:01 amWednesday, September 8, 202122 Comments

Fight for the Future will hold protests against iPhone backdoor surveillance at Apple Stores on September 13th. Apple has currently…

EFF: Delays aren’t good enough; Apple must abandon its surveillance plans

Saturday, September 4, 2021 11:14 amTuesday, September 28, 202122 Comments

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has eschewed Apple’s plan to delay a controversial backdoor to scan users’ photo libraries…

Apple’s minor App Store concessions fail to address top concerns of regulators, lawmakers

Friday, September 3, 2021 12:58 pmFriday, September 3, 20217 Comments

In the space of a week, Apple made two App Store rules concessions, which are the subject of lawsuits, regulatory probes, and legislative…

Apple delays ill-considered backdoor to scan Photos and Messages

Friday, September 3, 2021 9:48 amSaturday, September 4, 202121 Comments

Apple on Friday said it would delay a controversial backdoor to scan users’ photo libraries, ostensibly for Child Sexual Abuse Material…

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