Apple suggests iMessage and FaceTime could be withdrawn in UK over law change
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US 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.

  • Leraje@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    76·
    11 months ago

    Signal have already said they will withdraw completely from the UK, as have WhatsApp, Session and a few others.

    • citytree@lemmy.mlEnglish
      81·
      11 months ago

      If and when Signal is packaged for F-Droid, how is the British government going to stop people in the UK from using Signal?

      • Leraje@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        26·
        11 months ago

        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’.

        • damnYouSun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          81·
          11 months ago

          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.

          • Leraje@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            81·
            11 months ago

            Which would be fine except Starmer approves of all the things contained in the various bits of legislation.