Apple wins dismissal of lawsuit over child sexual abuse material on iCloud

July 14 : A U.S. judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing Apple of failing to stop the dissemination of child sexual abuse material through its iCloud data storage platform, saying the company is broadly shielded from the claims under a federal law protecting online services from liability for user content.U.S. District Judge Noël Wise in San Jose, California, in a ruling late Monday, agreed with Apple's argument that the company is immune from claims brought by plaintiffs who say Apple failed to take action to prevent images of their sexual abuse as children from being shared and stored on iCloud.Wise said the lawsuit sought to hold Apple responsible for failing to remove or block content created by users, placing the claims within the scope of Section 230 of the Communication