Apple is facing a $1.2B lawsuit over its decision to abandon client side scanning back in 2021, as it faces increasing pressure from law enforcement.
Apple’s ability to design privacy conscious and secure technologies is being threatened as the company faces a $1.2B class action lawsuit. The plaintiff’s lawyers claim that Apple isn’t doing enough to prevent the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on its platform. The lawsuit points to the company abandoning an effort to implement scanning for such content into iCloud back in 2021, which it did after receiving backlash from users, privacy advocates and the media.
The danger stems from how Apple was going to scan for CSAM, whenever content was being funneled onto its iCloud service.
