UK Government Issues New Order to Access iCloud User Data

[jlwarlow]

So the UK gov want's a digital ID card on my iPhone, with weak encryption to protect this ID card? Thanks.

 

[Siliconguy]

I am not one who believes in the "If you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about argument".

Especially when they keep redefining "anything wrong."

 

[HQuest]

Wait until they realize they don’t need to ask for a ton of backdoors or changes in encryption mechanisms. All they need is a root certificate deployed on any UK sold phone and tap everything inside the carriers and service providers, just like any enterprise does…

 

[WarmWinterHat]

Wait until they realize they don’t need to ask for a ton of backdoors or changes in encryption mechanisms. All they need is a root certificate deployed on any UK sold phone and tap everything inside the carriers and service providers, just like any enterprise does…

Better yet, wait until they do what the US government does and just buy it from third-party data brokers for next to nothing.

 

[Corefile]

Just geo-block the Brits already. It's not like they are the EU and actually matter.

 

[MAlbi]

Signed. And passed on.

 

[dan-K]

Not only will they be policing us for what post on social media, they'll now be policing us for what we say in private conversations.

 

[orbital~debris]

I used to think living in the UK could be cool, but with their surveillance state, penalizing people for saying things in social media, and other insanity I no longer think that. Evidently living in the UK means the government deserves access to everything about you. I am not one who believes in the "If you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about argument".

The UK is essentially a surveillance state now, and with Starmer trying to make this digital ID a thing it’s just getting worse and worse.

Be well, my UK cousins.

British citizens in the UK are basically a herd of slaves. With the UK Gov controlling that herd more and more tightly......

Londonistan is a Fitting name!

It's easy to write things like this, without direct experience, but it's really not like this in the UK.

However, there most definitely are certain individuals – who want power, money, or both – who are painting pictures of UK daily life that is a fiction (such as supposed crimewaves driven by immigrants).

 

[Aoligei]

Would be a shame if someone started a... Revolution perhaps?

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What you gonna achieve?

Let say if you start a revolution, the next day Government will invoke emergency measure, and guess what they will take away any remaining rights and freedom.

You just hand over everything to the government, that’s exactly what they want.

Any what are you chances to get major consensus from general population over this? Nobody wants start revolution and plunge country into chaos with this m? Without general consensus, you won’t be successful

 

[kaz911]

Just geo-block the Brits already. It's not like they are the EU and actually matter.

Now lookup EU’s Chatcontrol…

Even worse than any of UK’s attempts.

But most brits know what is coming and moving things out of iCloud to local hosted - which should have been done long ago anyway. VPN’s and NAS’s are selling like hotcakes.

Nobody should rely on iCloud or any other HOSTED paid for storage platform.

 

[KarimLeVallois]

British citizens in the UK are basically a herd of slaves. With the UK Gov controlling that herd more and more tightly......

They know they can get away with it now after we all followed orders during COVID.

 

[turbineseaplane]

When is Apple going to fight back? They already told the FBI (and, essentially, the US gov't) to go away, so why can't they just refuse to comply with this? Will there be a court order? If so, when will it be enough for Apple?

Do you really think a corporation is going to be able to tell governments to go away in perpetuity?

 

[Porco]

Questions remain around whether […] building a backdoor into encrypted iCloud data for the British government would jeopardize the security of global user data.

I would be interested to see precisely what such question/s remain. I can’t think of a single one.

 

[clayj]

Someone needs to remind the government of the Orwellian Kingdom that "1984" and "V for Vendetta" are not models to aspire to.

And Apple needs to just cut off the whole damn country until sanity is restored there.

 

[Dj64Mk7]

Boy, the next decade sure will be interesting…

 

[rp2011]

Apple, Tim specifically, as with Jensen have proven adept in combating the nonsense coming from Europe. Paying bribes and kissing the ring for protection has been a proven strategy throughout time.

 

[turbineseaplane]

And Apple needs to just cut off the whole damn country until sanity is restored there.

You may need to let us know which countries you are referring to specifically.

A long list would qualify for your comment above.

 

[mudflap]

This is only the beginning. The UK government’s authoritarian drift accelerates with each passing day, more surveillance, more restrictions, more control. The trajectory is unmistakable.

Authoritarianism has been going 'round lately, hasn't it? Concerning is an understatement.

 

[MilaM]

This is a good reason to make local iPhone backups more user-friendly again. Apple has neglected this part of the user experience for too long.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Boy, the next decade sure will be interesting…

The 1930’s: The Next Generation

 

[Orange Bat]

The book 1984 is supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

You need to take a chill pill! It was never about public health, the government didn't even follow their own rules!

It was about public health, the leaders just didn't like it and chose to break their own rules.

I'm a healthcare worker, and at the time of Covid, worked bedside with patients. My job would have been a lot easier and lot less people would have been suffering if people did follow the rules, but like a lot of our "leaders", it's rules for thee, not for me...even if they do help.

 

[macbookj0e]

As an English person this is depressing. Governments use guises such as terrorism and child abuse as fallacies to force their real (unspoken) agendas of control, such as this.

I hope apple fight back and win. The UK government should be ashamed of themselves, we may as well be communists at this stage.

 

[macbookj0e]

The book 1984 is supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.

Exactly. We and the crowd are following its path one small step at a time over many years so as not to notice the changes George Orwell laid out playing out in reality.

 

[turbineseaplane]

As an English person this is depressing. Governments use guises such as terrorism and child abuse as fallacies to force their real (unspoken) agendas of control, such as this.

I hope apple fight back and win. The UK government should be ashamed of themselves, we may as well be communists at this stage.

Just how I feel about Apple wielding terms like "security and privacy" to justify and defend their excessive cut of all revenue flowing across iOS/iPadOS.

There are no white knights here.