UK government demands access to Apple users' encrypted data
www.bbc.co.uk
The Home Office served the notice to the tech giant under the Investigatory Powers Act.

UK government is trying to get into iCloud end-to-end encryption. (Again?)

Makes me think about email servers too. Most of my private information is in emails, and not only I use a service where the host machines access the email, so do almost everyone I email to/from.

  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Op: read about pgp/gpg. Do it now. When you don’t understand something ask questions about it instead of giving up.

    While that’s usable for files, they cannot use it for the app backups and conta ts and such that the system creates on iCloud

    • Gayhitler@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      Yeah people affected by this would have to turn on adp (iCloud recovery key) and be vigilant about how precisely Apple chooses to remove that feature assuming the uk government doesn’t back down.

      Worst case scenario you’d need to be doing local backups and have iCloud turned off.

      Metadata is a bigger worry at that point though.