{"id":2249,"date":"2024-08-15T13:39:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T13:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/irreversible-suffering-apple-hit-with-class-action-over-lack-of-safety-guardrails-for-children\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T13:39:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T13:39:21","slug":"irreversible-suffering-apple-hit-with-class-action-over-lack-of-safety-guardrails-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/irreversible-suffering-apple-hit-with-class-action-over-lack-of-safety-guardrails-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Irreversible Suffering&#8217;: Apple Hit With Class Action Over Lack of Safety &#8216;Guardrails&#8217; for Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A new class action brought on behalf of a 9-year-old\u00a0plaintiff and her guardian accuses Apple of\u00a0intentionally failing to address\u00a0a recurring problem with child sexual abuse material on\u00a0its data storage platform, iCloud.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/pdfserver.amlaw.com\/legalradar\/pm-54692838_complaint.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suit<\/a>, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by the Buche Law Firm and Eisenberg &amp; Baum, claims that Apple has escaped accountability for the proliferation\u00a0of child sexual abuse material on iCloud by engaging in \u201cprivacy-washing,\u201d which it defines as \u201ca deceptive marketing tactic where Apple touts its commitment to protect the privacy of its consumers but neglect[s] to meaningfully implement its stated ideas to practice.\u201d It alleges\u00a0violations of sex trafficking laws and consumer protection laws, breach of contract, misrepresentation and unjust enrichment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new class action brought on behalf of a 9-year-old\u00a0plaintiff and her guardian accuses Apple of\u00a0intentionally failing to address\u00a0a recurring problem with child sexual abuse material on\u00a0its data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[715,464,2971,650,2970,1067,2967,2969,1691,2968],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-action","tag-apple","tag-children","tag-class","tag-guardrails","tag-hit","tag-irreversible","tag-lack","tag-safety","tag-suffering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}