It's obvious that's where it's coming from. Antagonizing traditional trade/defense partners is part of the strategy to diminish the United States role and influence in world affairs.
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US Lawmakers Urge Intelligence Chief to Fight UK iCloud Backdoor Order
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This UK law overreaches so far, is so bold and brutal, in that companies cannot even announce that they have been requested to take action, that I cannot help think that it is in fact a ruse by Five Eyes to weaken encryption standards across global platforms to assist the domestic spy agencies of the five countries. Usually, British law is very careful about jurisdictional issues. The overreach aspect tells me that the global ambition behind the law is at the behest of Five Eyes nations, with the UK acting as a kind of bellwether for such laws. Weakened encryption will assist the US spy agencies just as much, if not more so, than the UK's, remembering anyway that the US and UK share real-time intelligence at the highest level. For goodness sake, the US has various military units across the UK, which itself is home to the world's largest listening site (co-run with the US).
I don't want to start a war here, but do we even know if this actually happened? As far as I understand, it was a leaked source, to one news organization that has been picked up by others. No one else, Apple, the UK government, or other news organization, has confirmed this request/requirement has happened.
I'm not saying it didn't happen, but there seems to be a lot of unfounded confidence that it did. Shouldn't the goal be to see if it's true?
I'm not saying it didn't happen, but there seems to be a lot of unfounded confidence that it did. Shouldn't the goal be to see if it's true?
America's role in the world is definitely being severely diminished because The Duck is back-stabbing or antagonizuing allies and reaching-out to Putin. The Duck lied to Americans and used a false fentynal schtick to access emergency dictatorial powers and impose tariffs on Canada; A strong traditional ally before the The Duck sat in the Oval Office again.
The Russians are using Elon the Nazi's Starlink and it was reported Elon texts with Putin. This strongly points to Trump also texting with Putin because it is on Starlink; no one will know because it's on Starlink.
Republicans won't do anything to prevent The Duck's transformation of America into a Putin-style authoritarian dictatorship because they are fixated on booting illegal immigrants out of the US and The Duck is the one to do it...and of course, if you go against The Duck's orders you face the hammer of vengeance and maybe a visit from The Proud Boys.
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Difficult because the new law makes it illegal for companies with a UK presence to publicly announce that it has received a request under the IPA. In addition, the company is forced to comply and make changes even while it makes an appeal to a secret panel. If the panel agrees with Apple, the company can then reverse its changes and remove the backdoor, but the panel could make such a decision weeks or months after the appeal application. It is very, very dark law and quite unBritish in all sorts of ways, not least in how it appears not to give a damn about geographic boundaries. Thus my comment above about this coming from Five Eyes to assist the US in acquiring encrypted data via the UK's IPA law. The UK then became a backdoor for US spy agencies. This is not, to my mind, even remotely far-fetched as an idea given what we know about various projects leaked by WikiLeaks etc.
This is my belief and expectation, as well, but that's almost a separate issue.
This demand by Starmer's government is outrageous. I expect Apple will tell them to go pound sand and, if push comes to shove, simply remove iCloud Advanced Data Protection from the UK.
One of Apple's main claims to fame is customer privacy and data protection. If UK authorities can access anybody's data, at any time, anywhere in the world, regardless of geophysical location or nationality, warrantless, that would blow that clear out of the water.
This is such a bad take, I can barely compute it. I think you underestimate, to a profound degree, the extensive cooperation between the UK and US, not just under Five Eyes but under dozens of separate programs. As to sharing US values, this would be the values of, what, voting in a rapist as President whose first call was to his chums in Saudi Arabia, the ones who committed billions to Trump's son-in-law's company? The Trump who has applied huge tariffs to friendly neighbour Canada. The Trump who wants to turn Gaza in a property development owned by the Americans whilst carting Gazans to other parts of the Middle East, no caring a whit that that would destabilise the rest of the region. Yeh, real genius values, bud!
So you're cool with corruption as an American value?
Trump administration says it has no plans to fulfill $400 million 'armored Tesla' contract
That's according to a public State Department procurement document. It comes as ethics experts raise conflict of interest questions about the chief executive of Tesla, Elon Musk, who is a close adviser to President Trump.
www.npr.org
Being as, as I understand it, political discussion is, if not outright prohibited, very strongly discouraged here on MR: I'm not going to discuss these aspects of US policy or relations any further here.
The subject of this article is political. The law and court system only exist because of the government. And you agreed with a post by GMShadow that is also political.
If you have a custom ROM based on AOSP (Android Open Source Project), then no. You can verify that it doesn't have malicious code yourself. ROM from Samsung, Xoaimi, Oppo, Vivo, etc...then who knows.🤷♂️
I vote for the Airstrip One name.😏
Yes, truly horrible to hear The Duck say he wants to remove Palestinians from Gaza and develop it into the jewel of the 🤮 This is so evil. Palestinians do not want to leave Gaza even if The Duck houses them in his hotels equipped with gold plated toilets and mirrored walls.
This is what the FBI and US lawmakers have been demanding for years now.
Under The Duck American Commerce has become the sleazy opportunistic tariff.So you're cool with corruption as an American value?
Trump administration says it has no plans to fulfill $400 million 'armored Tesla' contract
That's according to a public State Department procurement document. It comes as ethics experts raise conflict of interest questions about the chief executive of Tesla, Elon Musk, who is a close adviser to President Trump.
When Trump says "Make blah rich blah" he means the billionaire class. The income gap will increase and fewer and fewer hands will own more and more.
Wall Street corruption that produced the financial meltdown that became a huge tax payer bailout is now in the White House. The Duck's Secretary of Commerce is greed-is-good Lutnick.
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I'm inclined to think this "opposition" from our congress critters is mere theater. If you remember back when PRISM was revealed by Snowden, one of the biggest reasons the Five Eyes enacted these programs was because laws prohibit them from spying on their own citizens, but there's nothing about asking an allied nation about the information they have on your citizen.
This would be a goldmine of information on citizens for the US government and there's no doubt the UK would be more than happy to oblige.
This would be a goldmine of information on citizens for the US government and there's no doubt the UK would be more than happy to oblige.
If only we were allowed to do that with our own government these days. Example: judges' rulings that Trump doesn't like are "illegal" as per JD Vance and Musk. Perhaps that explains why the earlier article about Apple advertising on Twitter allows no comments. 😥
Edward Snowden...who still lives in Russia. His claims about PRISM having direct access to tech company servers turned out to be false. PRISM was an NSA portal for making requests to tech companies for data on overseas individuals and groups.
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This is exactly what they (UK)are leveraging. I think ‘everyone’ is trying to see how much they can pull against and/or how much they can get from American companies.
Universal jurisdiction doesn't give them a fishing license.
All very well and fine, except some of us live in the UK .... Better for the US government to act diplomatically on the behalf of its citizens (170,000+ of them in the UK, including me), or whatever passes for that in these surreal days.
I'm delighted to see a hint of pushback ..
But, I'm telling y'all, as others have said in here too, the US wants this access just as much as anyone else
In fact, I could see other countries who info share with the UK loving them falling on the sword publicly, while being able to get access to said data via the UK
But, I'm telling y'all, as others have said in here too, the US wants this access just as much as anyone else
In fact, I could see other countries who info share with the UK loving them falling on the sword publicly, while being able to get access to said data via the UK