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UK Still Demanding Global Access to iCloud User Data, Filings Suggest
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It's actually very true. Not sure if you are from the UK or not. If so you must be living under a rock...Not true, but never mind
I could type a long monologue here, but please just take the time to read a couple of links:
Protester arrested over ‘Plasticine Action’ T-shirt: ‘How ridiculous is this?’
Miles Pickering says crowd at protest over Palestine Action ban was laughing at ‘silliness’ of scene as he was detained
Or again:
Screenwriter Paul Laverty arrested at protest under terror act
The 68-year-old, who wrote the film I, Daniel Blake, was arrested outside a police station in Edinburgh.
www.bbc.co.uk
Worryingly this individual was arrested under the Terrorism Act. An Act that is now regularly abused to detain people at airports even though the authorities are well aware they have absolutely no connection with terrorism and just want to have a peek at their phone.
Unfortunately between this and the Online Safety Act it’s clear they’re using Orwell as a manual, and not as a warning of not what to do.
You make that sound like it's a bad thing...
Whilst I agree with Apple's stance, there are many worse governments
Could you provide an example?
I can’t think of another government that is secretly ordering a company to give it the private information of all its users across the globe - even non-citizens who have never been to the country.
As well as lazy! Looking for the easiest (for them) way to snoop on the world!
“Get ‘yer boots on the ground, boys”
To the UK I say, KEEPS YOUR MITS OFF MY DATA!
Maybe Apple should team up with 4 chan .
www.bbc.com
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4chan launches legal case against Ofcom in US federal court
It wants the court to prohibit Ofcom from enforcing the Online Safety Act against it in the US.
www.bbc.com
You chose the wrong headline: Apple is not involved as the driving force behind such ideas.
The video is boring because it shows the shadows of institutional players, but neither names the driving forces nor the interested parties.
I don't have the courage to do that either.
I think the stupid people who use WhatsApp, X and similar apps to enrich their lives will lose out. The smart people who still talk to each other while walking hand in hand will be the winners.
Until now, there has been ethically driven legislation, America tries to show that there are other ways possible to go, the UK obediently follows suit, and technologically naive Europe has a good base but yet to learn what it is doing and why.
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Give it up, UK Gov. You're just making yourself look stupid now. I should now, I live here and see them doing this kind of thing all the time. It's not going to happen. Why would you ever think that it could and would? A total ignorance of the technical issues involved, and that smacks of complete incompetence. Embarrassing.
Hardly any action by a major (or minor) technology company is in the best interest of consumers either, unless those interests happen to overlap the company's own interests.
Most of the time governments seek to protect consumer rights, very much eroded by those companies.
See Meta, Google and X, just to mention the most obvious ones.
The UK government are a Joke at the moment, at everything they do, lets hope they are kicked out next term before they do any lasting damage.
It is demonstrably true.Not true, but never mind
Maybe Apple should team up with 4 chan
4chan launches legal case against Ofcom in US federal court
It wants the court to prohibit Ofcom from enforcing the Online Safety Act against it in the US.
This is providing me with great source of amusement.
The UK cannot enforce anything on websites operating from outside the UK. All they can do is to block access to the site from the UK.
As if 4chan would give a **** about that.
Well... if they are doing it secretly you wouldn't know about it, would you?
I mean, I have no idea for sure, but some people seem pretty certain that there are dealings going on between China and their companies operating worldwide.
Britain is a basketcase country that regularly makes laws that even Russia and China wouldn't implement. Demanding access to users' data from Apple that is not in Airstrip One is about 100 years too late. The British Empire is gone and what's left is a backwater country that is the sickman of Europe.
In a weird way this makes me feel better as an American that we don't have the only terrible and idiotic government in the West.
Could you provide some explanation as to exactly what you are referring to. You are not telling the whole story nor are you providing context.
Free speech includes the right to say things most of us find offensive, vile and disgusting.