Apple suggests iMessage and FaceTime could be withdrawn in UK over law change
www.theguardian.com
external-link
US tech firm says giving government oversight of security changes could endanger encrypted products
@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
82Y

Makes sense. Apple has tied their corporate identity pretty closely to protecting personal privacy and they’ve also set up E2E encryption of iCloud pretty recently (end of last year). Probably just easier to turn off those communication options then to try and deliberately punch holes in the protections they’ve set up.

Create a post

This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.


Ask in DM before posting product reviews or ads. All such posts otherwise are subject to removal.


Rules:

1: All Lemmy rules apply

2: Do not post low effort posts

3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff

4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.

5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)

6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist

7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed

  • 1 user online
  • 24 users / day
  • 152 users / week
  • 448 users / month
  • 2.23K users / 6 months
  • 1 subscriber
  • 3.07K Posts
  • 43.9K Comments
  • Modlog