WWDC protesters want Apple to ban Elon Musk’s apps

They’re besides demanding a crackdown connected kid maltreatment imagery successful iCloud.

Apple’s large developer convention is today, and protesters are utilizing the juncture to telephone connected the institution to region “nudify apps” from the App Store and propulsion “known” kid intersexual maltreatment worldly from iCloud.

Outside the visitors halfway astatine Apple’s Cupertino campus, protesters person put up a ample motion saying “Apple is powered by kid intersexual abuse” and asking incoming CEO John Ternus, “What will you do?” The protesters travel from UltraViolet, a women’s defense group, and Heat Initiative, a group that intends to “hold tech companies accountable for enabling and profiting from kid intersexual abuse.”

Apple and Google came nether significant scrutiny earlier this twelvemonth for continuing to support apps for illustration xAI’s Grok connected their app stores moreover though users were capable to make nonconsensual sexualized deepfakes. In pamphlets distributed astatine the protest, the organizations opportunity that “at slightest 47 nudify apps person been recovered connected Apple’s App Store” and that “Apple has made an estimated $117 cardinal minimum from nudify apps,” including “an estimated $35+ cardinal from Grok alone,” citing information from the Tech Transparency Project. UltraViolet besides has a website dedicated to its protestation today.

Apple antecedently scrapped plans to scan photos saved to iCloud for kid intersexual maltreatment imagery complete privateness concerns.

Apple didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment.