UK Sought Broad Access To Apple Customers' Data, Court Filing Suggests (ft.com) 16
A newly published Investigatory Powers Tribunal filing indicates the UK government's Technical Capability Notice to Apple went beyond the company's Advanced Data Protection encryption to include standard iCloud services used by millions [non-paywalled source]. The document states the UK Home Office order "is not limited to" ADP data and applies "globally in respect of the relevant data categories of all iCloud users."
The filing emerged days after Trump administration officials claimed the UK had agreed to drop efforts targeting American citizens' data. Apple launched its legal challenge in March after receiving the TCN, which the company cannot discuss publicly under the Investigatory Powers Act. The tribunal scheduled a hearing for early next year. Apple withdrew ADP from UK customers in February.
The filing emerged days after Trump administration officials claimed the UK had agreed to drop efforts targeting American citizens' data. Apple launched its legal challenge in March after receiving the TCN, which the company cannot discuss publicly under the Investigatory Powers Act. The tribunal scheduled a hearing for early next year. Apple withdrew ADP from UK customers in February.
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There is a difference between "wants access" and "is sufficiently stupid and ignorant to put an explicit request for American's data to a US big tech company in a way which will inevitably come out in public". That should be surprising.
Compare with the Chinese government which is believed to use access to TikTok data to manipulate the American political system. They very explicitly do it in ways where, if most of the people that actually know it's being done give away the fact that it is being done they, or
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There is a difference between "wants access" and "is sufficiently stupid and ignorant to put an explicit request for American's data to a US big tech company in a way which will inevitably come out in public". That should be surprising.
Compare with the Chinese government which is believed to use access to TikTok data to manipulate the American political system. They very explicitly do it in ways where, if most of the people that actually know it's being done give away the fact that it is being done they, or their relatives, will go to prison for torture for very long periods of time. Clearly the fact the Chinese government does things in this way is more sensible and allows them to come to reasonable agreements with the Trump administration to allow both governments to get on with their common interest of stealing from the citizens.
Why should I find that either "stupid and ignorant" or "surprising"? It's not like anyone living under any of these governments (and I'm referring to them all right now, US, UK, China, pick whichever one you like) will actually DO anything about it.
Correction: (Score:2)
[...] filing indicates the UK government's Technical Capability Notice to Apple [...]
"[...] filing indicates the UK Privacy Rapists' Technical Capability Notice to Apple [...]"
There FTFY.
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Do Other Countries Have Sovereignty? (Score:2)
It would seem not from comments here.
If the UK and the EU want to regulate tech in *their* countries they should be allowed to without penalty. The companies can comply and inform their users, leave or find country sized firewalls blocking them. That is how it should work.
If that is not accurate, why can Russia do exactly that without penalties from the US?
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It isn't required to be consistent between different nations, as we have different foreign policy toward different nations.
It's one of those "Elections have consequences" things.
France has the right to tax digital services, and the US has the right to tax imports from them.
Those 2 parties will need to come to an agreement as to how much of each either party will tolerate.
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Wrong fucking article. Apologies.
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""Diversity, Equity & Inclusion" trump "Uniformity, Inequity & Exclusion.""
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HUH - WHO wants Inequity & Exclusion?
Anyone who does not like DEI.
And many have not thought much about what that really means...
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