In a powerful legal action, dissatisfied consumers are filing a class-action lawsuit against Apple, alleging that the company orchestrated a scheme to restrict peer-to-peer payment options and block cryptographic technology on their iOS devices.

The lawsuit, filed Nov. 17 in a California district court, accuses Apple of anticompetitive agreements with PayPal’s Venmo and Block’s Cash App, thereby limiting the use of decentralized cryptographic technology in payment applications. This, according to the plaintiffs, resulted in “rapidly inflated” payments by users.

“These agreements limit feature competition, and the price competition that would result from it, at the market level, including by prohibiting the incorporation of decentralized cryptographic technology within existing or new iOS Peer-to-Peer payments applications,” he maintains. the demand.

Additionally, the plaintiffs argue that Apple uses “technological and contractual restrictions,” including App Store exclusivity and “contractual limitations on web browser technology,” to have “absolute control” over all apps on iPhones and iPads.

The lawsuit notes that Apple forces new P2P apps on iOS to prohibit the use of cryptocurrency “as a condition of entry.”

These consumers, who describe themselves as victims of inflated fees due to Apple’s business restrictions, are seeking to recover excessive fees and improper charges. They are also seeking a court order preventing Apple from continuing with anti-competitive agreements in the P2P payments market on iOS.

The extensive 58-page document chronicles the evolution of peer-to-peer payment applications, the rise of decentralized cryptocurrencies, and Apple’s foray into this competitive market. In April, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals already ruled that Apple violated California competition laws by restricting payment options not linked to the company.

K. Tovar

Source: Cointelegraph

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Apple will introduce a cryptographic technology with iOS and iPadOS to limit the distribution of child sexual abuse material on services such as iCloud, and will use machine learning on the device to warn of explicit sexual content in its Messages app.

The technology company spoke about the novelties in child protection, new tools designed with experts that seek to protect children from predators who use digital services to reach them.

One of the main concerns in this area is the sending of child sexual abuse material. Apple announced “new cryptographic applications” in the next versions of iOS and iPadOS that will allow detecting images of this type that are stored in iCloud.

The company explains that this method does not scan the images in the cloud, but is based on an on-device comparison of known images provided by child safety organizations before they are uploaded to iCloud.

What is being compared is not the image itself, but the “hashes” of the images, a kind of fingerprint. A cryptographic technology called ‘private set intersection’ is what determines if there is a match without revealing the result, and is attached to the image once uploaded to iCloud.

The ‘secret exchange threshold’ technology ensures a high level of matching, and that is when Apple receives an alert, for human teams to review. If confirmed, the user’s account is deactivated and a report is sent to the relevant associations and the Police.

K. Tovar

Source: dpa

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