Apple suggests iMessage and FaceTime could be withdrawn in UK over law change
www.theguardian.comUS tech firm says giving government oversight of security changes could endanger encrypted products
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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Signal have already said they will withdraw completely from the UK, as have WhatsApp, Session and a few others.
How will that prevent people from using them?
If and when Signal is packaged for F-Droid, how is the British government going to stop people in the UK from using Signal?
Knowing 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’.
I never would’ve thought that the US would be the place for better privacy
They’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.
Which would be fine except Starmer approves of all the things contained in the various bits of legislation.
Lol UK losing WhatsApp. Yikes.
EU when?
A service i would gladly lose completely
Yeah. Whatsapp’s the big one in europe.