UK Gov wants Apple users data

[fillyboy]

Exactly, they are just on a fishing trip.

 

[mattylad]

I wonder if they already have googles data or will they be going after that next?

 

[Deleted member 317777]

I wonder if they already have googles data or will they be going after that next?

Google will happily pass information about.

Apple have said no numerous times I believe.

 

[Deleted member 265726]

Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row - BBC News

Customers' photos and documents stored online will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Deleted member 265726]

May as well live in China or Russia.

 

[MNW67]

Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row - BBC News

Customers' photos and documents stored online will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption.

www.bbc.co.uk

What I hadn't realised is that this seems to be all about iCloud data. I thought it was about messages. But it looks like messages are still end to end encrypted and can't be read. Not my area of expertise because I hardly use tech.

 

[Deleted member 317777]

Yeah it’s about what’s stored in your iCloud.

We have a family one at the min.

 

[Deleted member 265726]

I do not consent to the government looking at my private data. I have nothing to hide but that is besides the point. They have no business treating us as though we have no right to privacy. This government needs to go like yesterday.

 

[securespark]

Surveillance state.

Imagine your relatives were caught up in one of the bombings.

Surely you would want the Govt to be able to get information from the bomber's devices?

The Govt wouldn't have free reign to surveill everyone willy nilly, they would need to apply to a court with reasoning.

 

[Deleted member 265726]

Imagine your relatives were caught up in one of the bombings.

Surely you would want the Govt to be able to get information from the bomber's devices?

The Govt wouldn't have free reign to surveill everyone willy nilly, they would need to apply to a court with reasoning.

They already have permission to access that data in that type of situation.

They are stalinist scum

 

[IT Minion]

As soon as you build a backdoor into security you have opened a massive weakness that will given long enough be abused by bad actors.

And once you've allowed it in one jurisdiction then you'll have to do it in others. I'm firmly on the no access side of the argument.

 

[gas112]

I take it if you all think the likes of the NSA GCHQ etc dont already have access this information without telling us
Snowden told us well over a decade ago what they were up to and surveillance tech has come on leaps and bounds since then .

Mobile phones hacked: can the NSA and GCHQ listen to all our phone calls?

Snowden leak reveals that the US and UK security services hacked into servers and stole the access keys to billions of sim cards around the world

www.theguardian.com

 

[MNW67]

I take it if you all think the likes of the NSA GCHQ etc dont already have access this information without telling us
Snowden told us well over a decade ago what they were up to and surveillance tech has come on leaps and bounds since then .

We don't know for sure. But end to end encryption has come on leaps and bounds, too. Can that be cracked?

 

[MNW67]

As soon as you build a backdoor into security you have opened a massive weakness that will given long enough be abused by bad actors.

And once you've allowed it in one jurisdiction then you'll have to do it in others. I'm firmly on the no access side of the argument.

Is this a backdoor, though. It seems more like a wide open front door with a big sign on it saying come in.

 

[MNW67]

They already have permission to access that data in that type of situation.

They are stalinist scum

Apple say that even they can't decrypt it. Who knows, though.