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Apple Says It Will Exit The UK Market If Government Passes Update To Investigatory Powers Act (www.techdirt.com)
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Apple Says It Will Exit The UK Market If Government Passes Update To Investigatory Powers Act::Apple fought the law and -- contrary to the song lyrics -- it won. Years later, Apple decided it would get ahead of the law enforcement curve by attempting to engage in client-side scanning of iPhone users' content. That worked out less well for Apple, which (at least momentarily) decided making governments happy was more…

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[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Come on UK, don't be a China.

[–] Dima@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

I'm from the UK, agree with you a thousand times over

[–] MedicareForSome@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except imessage and facetime are end-to-end encrypted in China.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's going to last exactly as long as legislation. Apple was told to and then pushed out an update to set airdrop to automatically turn off after a few minutes, only for users in hong Kong because airdrop was used as a primary means of organizing and sending info on protests.

[–] MedicareForSome@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I don't know about that, it rolled out globally a month later.