Tech group says it can no longer offer advanced protection to British users after demand for ‘back door’ to user data https://archive.is/NI01z
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Apple withdraws cloud encryption service from UK after government order Tech group says it can no longer offer advanced protection to British users after demand for ‘back door’ to user data
Apple said current UK users of the security feature will eventually need to disable it © REUTERS Apple is withdrawing its most secure cloud storage service from the UK after the British government ordered the iPhone maker to grant secret access to customer data.
“Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP) in the United Kingdom to new users and current UK users will eventually need to disable this security feature,” the US Big Tech company said on Friday.
Last month, Apple received a “technical capability notice” under the UK Investigatory Powers Act, people familiar with the matter told the FT at the time.
The request for a so-called “backdoor” to user data would have enabled law enforcement and security services to tap iPhone back-ups and other cloud data that is otherwise inaccessible, even to Apple itself.
The law, dubbed a “Snooper’s Charter” by its critics, has extraterritorial powers, meaning UK law enforcement could access the encrypted data of Apple customers anywhere in the world, including in the US.
This is a developing story
Governmental advocates for mandatory backdoors have no clue that they effectively make encryption moot. UK users will only be silghtly less secure with no encryption vs. backdoored encryption.
And they’ll do so under the pretense of “will nobody think of the children” while prominent Brits have gotten away with raping kids practically in the open. They didn’t even need encryption, they had people willingly turning a blind eye.
“If you’re not high enough in the British class order to have institutional protections against raping children, then maybe you don’t deserve rights?” -British Lawmakers, probably
What makes you so sure of that? I’m pretty sure they know and plan to exploit it themselves.
And any really unscrupulous actors will just setup their own encryption…
Apple should put a big notification next to Advanced Protection that says “sorry, we can’t offer this in the UK because they want things to be less secure for you. Please talk to your MP about this”
Will somebody PLEASE think of the children?!
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I think of the children. I think they should be banned from the internet. It would solve so many technical and social problems.
This is a good ad for their “advanced protection” feature
Brutal. The UK is a third world country now.
