this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025
176 points (98.9% liked)

Technology

63134 readers
3576 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
176
Apple turns off iCloud encryption feature in UK following reported government legal order. (therecord.media)
submitted 2 days ago by Cat@ponder.cat to c/technology@lemmy.world
23 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
  1. Artificially pull out of UK, by forcing all UK residents to select a different country of residence with a banner as to why UK residents can't have iPhones, then store all their ADP encrypted data on data warehouses outside of the UK. Then claim that they (Apple) don't track users and have to trust that users are selecting the correct countries of residence, and that they (Apple) will not allow the UK government to peak into non-UK residents, so they can't help "sorry (not sorry)".

Option 4 is similar to option 3 by telling the government to shove it, but with the very important benefit of still allowing the residents to use their products. It's (almost) a win win.

[–] karl_chungus@lemm.ee 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Also not realistic. Even if the UK government didn’t perceive that as fraud, Apple accounts (and most other businesses’ accounts) are region-locked and cannot be transferred elsewhere to prevent going around laws in this way.

This means that every user would also need to make new Apple accounts in their new country of choice and give up any purchases/subscriptions/data in their UK accounts. And possibly need new out of country phone numbers and service as well.