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UK Effort to Keep Apple Encryption Fight Secret Is Blocked

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170 points flanked-evergl | 4 comments | 08 Apr 25 07:46 UTC | HN request time: 1.011s | source
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amelius ◴[08 Apr 25 09:22 UTC] No.43619760[source]▶
I don't understand people who want to defend Apple in this case. UK is a functioning democracy, and why would you want to put a (foreign) company above that? If you want change, you know the route ...
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1. ohgr ◴[08 Apr 25 09:28 UTC] No.43619794[source]▶
I think you vastly misunderstand or are oversimplifying the problem here. They actually spoke up against a government mandated privacy violation.

What I am worried about really is Google, Meta etc did not speak up against it and likely have had the same requests. So I am worried about some foreign companies complying with my government. And very surprised that one particular foreign company gives more of a shit about me as an end user than my own government.

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2. petepete ◴[08 Apr 25 10:49 UTC] No.43620219[source]▶
I don't think it's fair to tar Meta with that brush. WhatApp have said repeatedly they'll leave the UK before disabling E2EE.
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3. ohgr ◴[08 Apr 25 12:29 UTC] No.43620939[source]▶
I don't believe they've commented on this issue at all and they carry more messages than Apple do in the UK.
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4. petepete ◴[09 Apr 25 07:46 UTC] No.43629803{3}[source]▶
Not in the last couple of months but they made a big deal about refusing to comply when it was raised in 2023.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/09/whatsapp-...