Apple and Google ordered to remove ‘nudify’ applications from App Stores | TechCrunch0

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• July 18, 2026

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