Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward, according to NBC News. U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank’s ruling focused as much on the timing of xAI’s lawsuit as on the substance of the law itself. Frank wrote that xAI filed its request for a
Apple and Google They have been ordered to remove apps that can “undress” or “undress” people and told they must stop profiting from harmful technology, according to cease-and-desist letters sent to the companies seen by WIRED. On Thursday, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu sent legal notices to Apple and Google demanding that they remove
The city of San Francisco has ordered Apple and Google to remove dozens of “nudification” apps (software programs that can digitally alter images to undress the people in them) from their app stores. California law criminalizes any activity that “knowingly facilitates” or “recklessly aids or abets” the creation of non-consensual deepfake pornography. In 2025, California