UK Gov V Apple

[Bryan+]

Surprised this hasn’t been mentioned but Apple removed its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature in the UK due to a Government request under the Investigatory Powers Act to access encrypted iCloud data. Instead of compromising privacy, Apple binned ADP for new users and will soon ask existing users to disable it, really mental tbh.

If this had been Iran, China or North Korea I’d not have been surprised. I suspect this is more to do with potential anti terror legislation rather than Investigatory Powers Act alone, but all you will see is the net result of oversight by the Government.


This is what it currently looks like on my phone

 

[Bedfordblue]

Surprised this hasn’t been mentioned but Apple removed its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature in the UK due to a Government request under the Investigatory Powers Act to access encrypted iCloud data. Instead of compromising privacy, Apple binned ADP for new users and will soon ask existing users to disable it, really mental tbh.

If this had been Iran, China or North Korea I’d not have been surprised. I suspect this is more to do with potential anti terror legislation rather than Investigatory Powers Act alone, but all you will see is the net result of oversight by the Government.


This is what it currently looks like on my phone

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Was reading about this yesterday, UKGov request was for worldwide access too iirc.
Ludicrous request that would never have been granted and has simply resulted in uk Apple customers losing a privacy feature that remains enabled everywhere else.
Will have to check if a VPN enables it again.

 

[mightymoyes]

Apple are pathetic for caving to our creepy govt

 

[TrailerTrash]

Nothing socialists hate more than privacy.

 

[Bedfordblue]

Apple are pathetic for caving to our creepy govt

Eh? They haven’t caved at all, the Gov wanted access they’ve said no and they won’t create the desired backdoor to facilitate it, they have withdrawn it’s rather than cave in.

 

[mightymoyes]

Eh? They haven’t caved at all, the Gov wanted access they’ve said no and they won’t create the desired backdoor to facilitate it, they have withdrawn it’s rather than cave in.

Same thing surely

 

[Bedfordblue]

Same thing surely

Well uk gov still can’t access it which was the request.
Think they will back down now to try to save face and it will be re-instated.

 

[Bryan+]

Same thing surely

Complete opposite

 

[mightymoyes]

Complete opposite

Do UK customers have access to the service now?

 

[Bryan+]

Do UK customers have access to the service now?

Yes - but it’s going to be withdrawn for existing customers.