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UK demands access to Apple users' encrypted data (www.bbc.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The demand has been served by the Home Office under the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA), which compels firms to provide information to law enforcement agencies.

Apple declined to comment, but says on its website that it views privacy as a "fundamental human right".

Under the law, the demand cannot be made public.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Maybe the demand can't be made public but it should be interesting to see what Tim Cook's next move will be. Will he conference call the Prime Minister and the head of the Home Orafice and telling them to back off? It's not quite the same thing to have a company like Signal leave the UK market vs. Cook telling the PM to suck his balls, then geofencing the Mac Store and iCloud from UK IP addresses. Given what Apple does in China to keep selling there, I wonder what they'll end up doing. Did they do that in Russia?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That's almost a surprise...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

In case anyone in the world thought their government was immune to kleptocrats, it isn't.