I'm from the UK and I completely agree.
It's not guns. It's called five eyes. You can guarantee that any US folks caught in the fishing net will have their data passed directly to the NSA per their long-standing agreement. It's a clever cheat around not legally being able to surveil Americans. Of course the favor is returned by agreement but it's hardly of worth because Brits have no expectations around privacy from a functional standpoint. I should go see if Sheneir has a post on his security blog about this.
Likely - long enough to see if the UK reverses their decision. However, the logic to force a downgrade probably doesn't exist yet, while the logic to prevent it from being enabled does.
It is still cloud-backed in the same way, just with a key that Apple doesn't have escrowed via their HSM. They'll cut off your ability to update it, or possibly to read it at all.
Now replace personal hard drive with cloud backups, and you'll see why people would consider them liable.
Apple's well-compensated stable of lawyers have likely though of that, you probably have to accept it with every activation of a new phone and every iOS update.
Don't worry they will still find a way to meet their quota and arrest pensioners for hurting someone's feelings online. I assume via facebook because that's where old people proffer their unsolicited slop
But the rest of the world -- for now -- is safe from British totalitarianism.
I expect that visitors would have encrypted data slurped up with all the rest and put aside for later in the event access is possible down the road. If you move there but have, say, a US or EU account id expect it would force the compliance based on how the 3rd party app store roaming works. But I don't know for sure. Just a guess given what's already in place. The grace period is likely subject to the same gag order that prevents Apple from really discussing particulars, safe to say every company in Apple's position was given a compliance deadline to be mindful of.
That's quite optimistic considering the agreements they have in place for reciprocating sharing of data. Maybe someone is safe from the UK poking around but if you're in Australia or the US they take the data and hand it off to the local counterparts who can now poke around at their leisure. That's the nature of the five eyes agreement.
I mean, the US is racing to catch up on authoritarianism.
Not even close. I can say Biden, Trump, anyone is a #ickhead and the police aren't going to come harass me. Post in a UK based forum with a UK IP address that Starmer is a #ickhead and see how it turns out. Call King Charles a #ickhead for better measure, it'll go over swell I'm sure.
"Forcing all citizens to walk around naked is just the price we pay to make sure nobody is hiding anything dangerous."
what nonsense 😃
I think they loophole it and get each other to spy on their citizens. What’s it called, 5 eyes or something.
That’s just a ridiculous statement. Don’t believe everything you see on Fox News.
Wrong. The article clearly states that passwords are not part of ADP and automatically encrypted, Apple does NOT have decryption key for this.
