Apple Suggest They Will Withdraw iMessage and FaceTime In UK If Law Changes Go Ahead
Apple Suggest They Will Withdraw iMessage and FaceTime In UK If Law Changes Go Ahead
US tech firm says giving government oversight of security changes could endanger encrypted products
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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.
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Good. Let's all move to signal
59 0 ReplySignal have already said they will withdraw completely from the UK, as have WhatsApp, Session and a few others.
76 0 ReplyLol UK losing WhatsApp. Yikes.
35 0 ReplyYeah. Whatsapp's the big one in europe.
16 0 ReplyEU when?
A service i would gladly lose completely
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If and when Signal is packaged for F-Droid, how is the British government going to stop people in the UK from using Signal?
8 0 ReplyKnowing 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'.
26 0 ReplyThey'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.
8 0 ReplyWhich would be fine except Starmer approves of all the things contained in the various bits of legislation.
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I never would've thought that the US would be the place for better privacy
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How will that prevent people from using them?
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For real, wish I lived in the UK so I could get all my friends to adopt signal finally lol
6 0 ReplySignal will shut down too though lol
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No, move to something that's federated and not run by a corporation
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