West Virginia sued Apple on Feb. 19, claiming the company knowingly allowed its iCloud platform to be used to distribute and store child sexual abuse material for years without taking action to stop it.
“Preserving the privacy of child predators is absolutely inexcusable,” West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey said in a statement.
The state alleges Apple violated West Virginia’s Consumer Credit and Protection Act.
The lawsuit, filed in Mason County Circuit Court, is the first of its kind brought by a governmental agency against Apple over child sexual abuse material, according to the attorney general’s office.
McCuskey claims Apple made fewer than 300 reports of child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, while Google made more than 1.47 million reports and Meta made more than 30.6 million….
Apple Sued by West Virginia Over Allegedly Allowing Child Porn
