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Apple Suggest They Will Withdraw iMessage and FaceTime In UK If Law Changes Go Ahead (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 years ago by leraje@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] leraje@lemmy.world 76 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] vezrien@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Lol UK losing WhatsApp. Yikes.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

Yeah. Whatsapp's the big one in europe.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

EU when?

A service i would gladly lose completely

[–] citytree@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] leraje@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.works 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] leraje@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

How will that prevent people from using them?