New Delhi, July 18 -- SAN FRANCISCO - For the women whose photographs were fed into AI nudify apps without their knowledge, Thursday's legal action arrived after months of reports, requests, and unanswered correspondence. San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu sent formal demand letters to Apple and Google, ordering them to remove dozens of AI-powered nudify apps from their platforms within 28 days or face civil penalties under California law.

The letters, issued Thursday, invoke two intersecting California statutes. One criminalizes the creation of non-consensual deepfake pornography. A second law, enacted in 2025, extends civil liability to third-party platforms that facilitate that creation, including the app stores that distribute nu...