{"id":607820,"date":"2026-04-16T10:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/607820\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T10:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:59:08","slug":"apple-google-list-nudify-apps-despite-bans-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/607820\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple, Google List \u2018Nudify\u2019 Apps Despite Bans, Report Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/AAPL:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Apple Inc.<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/8888000D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Google<\/a> have continued to offer mobile apps that let users make nonconsensual sexualized images of people despite their policies prohibiting such content, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtransparencyproject.org\/articles\/apple-and-google-are-steering-users-to-nudify-apps\" title=\"Link to report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">report<\/a> published Wednesday by the Tech Transparency Project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Searching for terms like \u201cnudify\u201d and \u201cundress\u201d in the Apple and Google app download stores gives customers access to software that can be used to alter images of celebrities and others to make them appear nude or in a state of partial undress, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtransparencyproject.org\/about-us\" title=\"Link to website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">group<\/a>, a research arm of the nonprofit Campaign for Accountability. The companies also run ads for similar nudifying apps in their search results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple Inc. and Google have continued to offer mobile apps that let users make nonconsensual sexualized images of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21719,7175,1638,276,49,3335,48,75,137760,3430,2940,61,1297],"class_list":{"0":"post-607820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","9":"tag-apple-inc","10":"tag-apps","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-california","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-mountain-view","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-software","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-women"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}