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The UK Government Just Made Everyone Less Safe As Apple Shuts Down iCloud Encryption (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Everyone in the UK* less safe. AFAIK, the data encryption feature was only disabled for UK users.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 1 points 5 months ago

I think so. They’d need a key from a user’s device to decrypt their data on the server, so I think of you haven’t been prompted for that, your encryption isn’t getting disabled.