Apple is facing a lawsuit for reportedly failing to limit child sexual abuse material on its iCloud platform. According to The New York Times, the plaintiffs, who are alleged victims of abuse, are seeking more than $1.2 billion in damages, claiming that Apple abandoned a 2021 detection system intended to identify harmful content.
Filed on Saturday, the lawsuit was brought by a 27-year-old woman who argues that Apple’s inaction allowed images of her abuse to be widely distributed.
Independent games storefront itch.io’s website is down due to a “bogus phishing report” sent to its domain registrar, according to a post on X.
“I kid you not, @itchio has been taken down by @OriginalFunko because they use some trash “AI Powered” Brand Protection Software called @BrandShieldltd that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, @iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain” reads the post on X, posted late Sunday night.
I kid you not, @itchio has been taken down by @OriginalFunko because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called @BrandShieldltd that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, @iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain
— itch.io (@itchio) December 9, 2024
The person behind itch.io’s X account went on to add “Also, for transparency, we *did* take the disputed page down as soon as we got the notice because it’s not worth fighting stuff like that.