Apple suggests iMessage and FaceTime could be withdrawn in UK over law change
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US tech firm says giving government oversight of security changes could endanger encrypted products

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    7•2 years 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?

    • @lerajeOPEnglish
      29•2 years 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]English
        7•2 years 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.

        • @lerajeOPEnglish
          8•2 years ago

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

      • Possibly linuxEnglish
        1•2 years ago

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