In a significant victory for Apple, a U.S. federal judge has dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the company of…
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West Virginia sues Apple over iCloud’s alleged role in distribution of child sex abuse material
Apple has been hit with a lawsuit from West Virginia over its iCloud service and child sexual abuse material (CSAM), but the company’s…
New iMessage feature allows children to report nudity to Apple
Apple is introducing a new feature to iMessage – coming first to Australia – that will allow children to report nudity in images and videos…
Watchdog accuse Apple of ‘clearly underreporting’ child sexual abuse materials (CSAM)
The UK’s NSPCC claimed Monday that Apple is failing to effectively monitor its platforms or scan for child sexual abuse materials (CSAM)…
Apple explains its CSAM-scanning about-face: ‘Scanning for one type of content… opens the door for bulk surveillance’
Apple killed an effort to design an iCloud photo scanning tool for detecting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in the storage service by…
Apple opposes UK bill that could mandate backdoor scanning in iMessage
Apple is the Online Safety Bill as it could be used to force encrypted messaging tools like iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal and other to scan;
Australian regulator miffed that Apple is not scanning users’ iCloud photos, videos, FaceTime chats
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
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
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
The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Apple’s delay of a controversial backdoor to scan users’ photo libraries, ostensibly for…
Apple’s backdoor surveillance scheme remains delayed, not canceled
Apple updated its “child safety” webpage to remove all references to the controversial backdoor surveillance scheme, ostensibly…
Apple may have terminated its backdoor surveillance scheme; removes all mentions from website
Apple may have quietly terminated its controversial backdoor surveillance scheme which would have scanned users’ photo libraries, ostensibly…
Researchers: Apple’s delayed backdoor surveillance scheme doesn’t even work
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
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’
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
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!”
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
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
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
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
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
Apple on Friday said it would delay a controversial backdoor to scan users’ photo libraries, ostensibly for Child Sexual Abuse Material…
Nearly 100 civil rights groups worldwide call on Apple to abandon CSAM iPhone surveillance
Nearly 100 civil rights groups worldwide have signed an open letter objecting to Apple’s plan to institute iPhone surveillance capabilities…
Apple appeals lawsuit against Corellium, after Corellium announces initiative to verify Apple’s CSAM scanning
After security research firm Corellium this week announced it is launching a new initiative that will “support independent public research…
