Loading ...Apple just allowed a back door for the United Kingdom. They ended cloud encryption.
This is BAD. It’s exactly what JD Vance was warning about. Europe is straying from free speech. The UK authorities can use this to target people with wrongspeak and wrongthink.
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1892962367828353421
https://www.thesun.ie/tech/14759683/iphone-advanced-data-protection-icloud-encryption-uk-shut-down/
https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/apple-drops-iclouds-advanced-data.html
Comment — WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Privacy of 2 billion Apple users worldwide is exposed. Encryption is like a digital lock. Only the user has key. Order means that key is shared with and/or accessible to UK government.
https://x.com/sands731/status/1892976076588228982
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1892987600983429392
WOW…UK IS TRUELY ORWELLIAN
Hopefully this means that any Gov’t officials using Apple products will likewise be prevented from using ADP.
“You want transparency, here you go MF’s.”
In fact (and for the record I’m not saying they ‘should’), …. expose all information on gov’t EE iphones.
It’d be nice if Apple had the equivalent of ‘wayback’ code to expose any scrubbing too.