{"id":3491034,"date":"2026-07-17T19:49:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/apple-and-google-instructed-to-eliminate-nudify-applications-from-app-stores\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:49:53","slug":"apple-and-google-instructed-to-eliminate-nudify-applications-from-app-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/apple-and-google-instructed-to-eliminate-nudify-applications-from-app-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple and Google instructed to eliminate \u2018nudify\u2019 applications from App Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"
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San Francisco has instructed Apple and Google to eliminate numerous \u201cnudify\u201d applications \u2014 software that can digitally manipulate images to undress individuals \u2014 from their app marketplaces.<\/p>\n

California legislation criminalizes any acts that \u201cknowingly facilitates\u201d or \u201crecklessly aids or abets\u201d the production of non-consensual deepfake adult content. In 2025, California passed additional legislation allowing victims to initiate civil suits against third-party enablers of such content. The city asserts that, despite these established laws, both tech giants have persisted in hosting and profiting from these applications.<\/p>\n

\u201cApple and Google are earning profits from applications that take advantage of women and girls by creating non-consensual intimate deepfakes,\u201d stated San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu in a statement sent to TechCrunch. \u201cWhile the companies have severed ties with certain problematic applications, Apple and Google are obligated to be proactive and vigilant in preventing sexual exploitation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Communications dispatched to Google and Apple by Chiu\u2019s office, which were reviewed by TechCrunch, indicate that the companies have \u201cbeen made aware\u201d of their involvement in \u201cprocessing payments for illegal transactions for nearly a year\u201d yet have continued to do so.<\/p>\n

The letters emphasize that both organizations have repeatedly been alerted to the presence of these applications. In January and again in April, the Tech Transparency Project released reports and sent correspondences to both entities emphasizing that there were \u201cnumerous applications\u201d in their app stores that \u201coffered deepfake NCII [non-consensual intimate images] in return for payments\u201d processed by the companies.<\/p>\n

TTP\u2019s April report stated that Google and Apple had deliberately \u201cdirected\u201d users towards such applications and referred to both companies as \u201ccritical players in the dissemination of AI tools that can convert real individuals into sexualized images.\u201d<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Chiu mentioned to Wired that both companies likely accrued \u201cmillions of dollars in fees\u201d from applications that provided such functionalities.<\/p>\n

Chiu\u2019s office letters caution that Apple and Google might encounter civil penalties for breaching the law and demand that they respond to the city within 28 days.<\/p>\n

TechCrunch contacted Apple and Google for their feedback.<\/p>\n

Deepfake pornography has predominantly affected female public figures; however, nudify applications enable anyone with a publicly available image to be targeted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When you purchase via links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This does not influence our editorial autonomy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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San Francisco has instructed Apple and Google to eliminate numerous \u201cnudify\u201d applications \u2014 software that can digitally manipulate images to undress individuals \u2014 from their app marketplaces.<\/p>\n

California legislation criminalizes any acts that \u201cknowingly facilitates\u201d or \u201crecklessly aids or abets\u201d the production of non-consensual deepfake adult content. In 2025, California passed additional legislation allowing victims to initiate civil suits against third-party enablers of such content. The city asserts that, despite these established laws, both tech giants have persisted in hosting and profiting from these applications.<\/p>\n

\u201cApple and Google are earning profits from applications that take advantage of women and girls by creating non-consensual intimate deepfakes,\u201d stated San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu in a statement sent to TechCrunch. \u201cWhile the companies have severed ties with certain problematic applications, Apple and Google are obligated to be proactive and vigilant in preventing sexual exploitation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Communications dispatched to Google and Apple by Chiu\u2019s office, which were reviewed by TechCrunch, indicate that the companies have \u201cbeen made aware\u201d of their involvement in \u201cprocessing payments for illegal transactions for nearly a year\u201d yet have continued to do so.<\/p>\n

The letters emphasize that both organizations have repeatedly been alerted to the presence of these applications. In January and again in April, the Tech Transparency Project released reports and sent correspondences to both entities emphasizing that there were \u201cnumerous applications\u201d in their app stores that \u201coffered deepfake NCII [non-consensual intimate images] in return for payments\u201d processed by the companies.<\/p>\n

TTP\u2019s April report stated that Google and Apple had deliberately \u201cdirected\u201d users towards such applications and referred to both companies as \u201ccritical players in the dissemination of AI tools that can convert real individuals into sexualized images.\u201d<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Chiu mentioned to Wired that both companies likely accrued \u201cmillions of dollars in fees\u201d from applications that provided such functionalities.<\/p>\n

Chiu\u2019s office letters caution that Apple and Google might encounter civil penalties for breaching the law and demand that they respond to the city within 28 days.<\/p>\n

TechCrunch contacted Apple and Google for their feedback.<\/p>\n

Deepfake pornography has predominantly affected female public figures; however, nudify applications enable anyone with a publicly available image to be targeted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When you purchase via links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This does not influence our editorial autonomy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3491035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3491034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3491034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3491035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3491034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3491034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3491034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}