US teens can access ‘nudify’ apps despite Apple and Google’s parental controls, report finds
A Tech Transparency Project investigation found that teenagers can easily download so-called 'nudify' apps through Apple and Google's app stores despite parental control tools, with test accounts posing as 13-year-olds successfully accessing 135 apps capable of generating nonconsensual explicit imagery.
Why this matters: Real kids are already being harmed. The report is not hypothetical — it opens with a Pennsylvania teen whose images were used to create AI-generated pornographic videos by another student. Apple and Google both have parental control systems they market to families. Those systems are not stopping this. That is a product failure, not a policy gap. Two of the most powerful companies in the world control what gets on their platforms. If 135 apps generating nonconsensual nude imagery are reachable by a 13-year-old test account, someone made a choice to allow that.
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