Apple originally planned to carry out on-device scanning for CSAM, using a digital fingerprinting technique. These fingerprints are a way to match particular images without anyone having to view them, ...

Apple is being sued over its decision not to implement a system that would have scanned iCloud photos for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The lawsuit argues that by not doing more to prevent the ...

Apple CSAM scanning plans may have been abandoned, but that hasn’t ended the controversy. An Australian regulator has accused the Cupertino company of turning a blind eye to the sexual exploitation of ...

Over thousands of CSAM (child sexual abuse materials) victims are now taking the fight against Apple after the company ultimately decided to skip adding tools that will help detect it on their ...

A class-action lawsuit filed in a Northern California district court alleges Apple's iCloud service has been used to spread child sexual-abuse materials, or CSAM. It also alleges that Apple's ...

In December, Apple said that it was killing an effort to design a privacy-preserving iCloud photo scanning tool for detecting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on the platform. Originally announced ...

A child protection organization says it has found more cases of abuse images on Apple platforms in the UK than Apple has reported globally. In 2022, Apple abandoned its plans for Child Sexual Abuse ...

Over a year ago, Apple announced plans to scan for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) with the iOS 15.2 release. The technology is inevitable despite imperfections and silence about it. And then, the ...

In August 2021 Apple announced a plan to scan photos users stored in iCloud for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). It was to designed detect child sexual abuse images on iPhones and iPads. However, ...

Apple's photo scanning feature for iCloud in search of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is no longer moving forward. The iPhone maker confirmed that it killed its plans to roll out such a security ...