cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/50665455
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/33877538
A court filing states that a government order against Apple would give it the capability to access communications and metadata of customers using the iCloud service anywhere in the world
So they didn’t drop the request for backdoor access to user data, just amended it a little.
Not long before Great Britain will be renamed Airstrip One.
Simple solution: Apple stops dealing with the UK. All user contracts are null and void due to the change in the law.
Realistic compromise solution: Apple charges UK government for user data. Everyone is happy and users eat up “your privacy matters” like flies on horseshit.
Apple: yeah but where money?
Isn’t Ireland their tax haven? That’s gonna be difficult for them
Ireland is not part of the UK, it is its own country.
Why would it be? Ireland has nothing to do with the UK.
Europe in genetal seems to be going downhill :(
It would seem like that when reading news, but it’s really not that bad. Enshittification is an issue though, but mostly being driven by the us oligarchs worldwide. A lot of the outrage/opinion manufacturing “media-news” never becomes reality on the ground.
The issue with nonsensical invasive surveillance tech is, logic and facts usually and eventually prevail, for instance backdooring systems for one group is backdooring for everyone, it just puts a huge target on your system and is ultimately ineffectual in its purpose, because the people of interest will adapt almost instantly (see examples “war on drugs”, “ending piracy”). In the end it is a losing battle, akin to trying to legislate wind to blow only in one direction.
