Apple suggests iMessage and FaceTime could be withdrawn in UK over law change
www.theguardian.com
US tech firm says giving government oversight of security changes could endanger encrypted products

Apple has said planned changes to British surveillance laws could affect iPhone users’ privacy by forcing it to withdraw security features, which could ultimately lead to the closure of services such as FaceTime and iMessage in the UK.

    • LerajeOPEnglish
      76•11 months ago

      Signal have already said they will withdraw completely from the UK, as have WhatsApp, Session and a few others.

      • @citytree@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7•11 months ago

        If and when Signal is packaged for F-Droid, how is the British government going to stop people in the UK from using Signal?

        • LerajeOPEnglish
          26•11 months ago

          Knowing this gvmt, they’ll try and prevent access at the ISP level. They’ve already started making noises about tackling ‘the menace of VPN’s’.

          • @damnYouSun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            7•11 months ago

            They’ll be out in six months to a year and since it takes them forever to achieve anything I wouldn’t worry.

            If you’ve got to have a right wing fascist government hope for an incompetent one.

            • LerajeOPEnglish
              7•11 months ago

              Which would be fine except Starmer approves of all the things contained in the various bits of legislation.

          • Possibly linuxEnglish
            1•11 months ago

            I never would’ve thought that the US would be the place for better privacy

    • @itchy_lizardEnglish
      4•11 months ago

      No, move to something that’s federated and not run by a corporation

    • @zebus@lemmy.zipEnglish
      -1•11 months ago

      For real, wish I lived in the UK so I could get all my friends to adopt signal finally lol