Apple wins dismissal of iCloud child abuse imagery lawsuit on Section 230 grounds
US federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing Apple of failing to stop images of child sexual abuse from being stored and shared through iCloud, finding that the claims sit inside the liability shield of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Judge Noël Wise issued the order late on Monday. The dismissal is with prejudice, meaning the plaintiffs cannot refile.
The suit was brought by two survivors identified in filings as Amy and Jessica, who said images of their abuse as children continued to circulate on Apple’s cloud storage. Their claim turned on a detection system the company built, announced in 2021, and then shelved.
NeuralHash would have matched photos against databases of known abuse imagery before they reached iCloud Photos. Apple delayed it within weeks, after researchers and privacy groups warned that scanning infrastructure built for one purpose could later be widened to others, and...
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