UK demands access to Apple users' encrypted data
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Re: UK demands access to Apple users' encrypted data
#2> And withdrawing the product from the UK might not be enough to ensure compliance - the Investigatory Powers Act applies worldwide to any tech firm with a UK market, even if they are not based in Britain.
That's incredibly demanding for a country that's been desperately trying to cling onto relevance for decades.
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#3> And withdrawing the product from the UK might not be enough to ensure compliance - the Investigatory Powers Act applies worldwide to any tech firm with a UK market, even if they are not based in Britain. That's incredibly demanding for a country that's been desperately trying to cling onto relevance for decades.
If they were to get this it's time to sue Apple for breach of GDPR.
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#5> And withdrawing the product from the UK might not be enough to ensure compliance - the Investigatory Powers Act applies worldwide to any tech firm with a UK market, even if they are not based in Britain. That's incredibly demanding for a country that's been desperately trying to cling onto relevance for decades.
To what extent is a country's relevance (whatever that even means) the decisive factor in determining what it is allowed to demand?
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#6Politicians living in dreamland again about what encryption can and cannot do. I thought this stupidity had died with our last excuse for a government. Sad to see this is back.
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#8Lawfare has some good articles covering the different perspectives on the encryption debate from the last 10 years. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/search-results?prod_search-inde...
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#9As a UK citizen, I'm hoping this is actually a backdoor effort by the US to hack into people's data rather then something our fine folks were pushing for.
Or at the very least, it's a starting point for negotiations around how best to stop bad actors without compromising user security.
Re: UK demands access to Apple users' encrypted data
#10> And withdrawing the product from the UK might not be enough to ensure compliance - the Investigatory Powers Act applies worldwide to any tech firm with a UK market, even if they are not based in Britain. That's incredibly demanding for a country that's been desperately trying to cling onto relevance for decades.
At some point I hope we get a government that governs global internet interactions. National governments are just making up silly jurisdiction rules because there's a customer that is currently in their place, overlooking the global nature or at least feel of the internet.
If I'm in one country and the person with whom im interacting is in another, whose geographical laws take precedence? Now imagine interacting with many many geographies at the same time.
It doesn't work and I hope one day we at least admit it to ourselves.