Apple's Abandonment of iCloud CSAM Scanner Is Hurting Victims, Lawsuit Alleges

In 2021, Applebegan several initiativestoscan mediaon devices and on iCloud for CSAM.

One of them would have checked files stored on iCloud.

But Apple paused development soon after complaints from privacy and security groups, and digital rights groups.

By late 2022, Apple ended up curtailing some of those plans altogether, including scanning images in iCloud.

A separate but similar individual suitin North Carolinawas filed in August on behalf of a 9-year-old sexual-assault victim.