Apple has said planned changes to British surveillance laws could affect iPhone users’ privacy by forcing it to withdraw security features, which could ultimately lead to the closure of services such as FaceTime and iMessage in the UK.

    • @lerajeOP
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      881 year ago

      Signal have already said they will withdraw completely from the UK, as have WhatsApp, Session and a few others.

      • @vezrien
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        401 year ago

        Lol UK losing WhatsApp. Yikes.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        If and when Signal is packaged for F-Droid, how is the British government going to stop people in the UK from using Signal?

        • @lerajeOP
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          291 year ago

          Knowing this gvmt, they’ll try and prevent access at the ISP level. They’ve already started making noises about tackling ‘the menace of VPN’s’.

          • @[email protected]
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            71 year ago

            They’ll be out in six months to a year and since it takes them forever to achieve anything I wouldn’t worry.

            If you’ve got to have a right wing fascist government hope for an incompetent one.

            • @lerajeOP
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              81 year ago

              Which would be fine except Starmer approves of all the things contained in the various bits of legislation.

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            11 year ago

            I never would’ve thought that the US would be the place for better privacy

    • @[email protected]
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      For real, wish I lived in the UK so I could get all my friends to adopt signal finally lol