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BBC News - Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row

  • "In a statement Apple said it was "gravely disappointed" that the security feature would no longer be available to British customers."

Washington post - Apple yanks encrypted storage in U.K. instead of allowing backdoor access

I guess removing access for the uk is better than backdooring it in silence. But still, not great.

Also, it is interesting comparing compliance on this with complying with the EU on sideloading apps.

Original title: 'Apple caved and pulled end-to-end encrypted backups in the uk' - record of bad take title

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[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Curious what happens if you were someone who had opted in to ADP. If your data is fully encrypted, do you just get to keep using it that way? Does this only impact new users? Or, is Apple going to somehow capture users encryption keys and revert ADP?

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[–] land@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] kepix@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

kinda horrible to read all these "this big tech company is a rebel and my best friend" comments.

apple allowed this for the usa before many times. this time it had to be publicly announced, cause the orange sleeper agent told them to undermine the uk gov in order to allign the MEGA endeavour.

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