If you want an app you built to be downloadable from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store, it has to pass a slew of criteria, including safety standards.
But a new report on Wednesday alleges that Apple and Google broke their own rules by promoting “nudify” apps that are outlawed in their app store policies.
The Tech Transparency Project, part of a nonprofit tech watchdog, first revealed in January that Apple and Google app stores had over 100 nudify or undressing apps. These are apps with the sole purpose of taking images of people, usually women, and editing them to appear to be that person without clothing, creating what’s called nonconsensual intimate imagery. Many of these apps use generative AI to create deepfakes.
Apple removed some of the prohibited apps at the time. But many are still out there, as evidenced in a subsequent investigation.
In April, TTP found that Apple and
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