Apple suggests iMessage and FaceTime could be withdrawn in UK over law change
www.theguardian.com
US tech firm says giving government oversight of security changes could endanger encrypted products

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.

    • Leraje@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      75·
      1 year ago

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

      • citytree@lemmy.mlEnglish
        81·
        1 year ago

        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.worldOPEnglish
          26·
          1 year ago

          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.worksEnglish
            81·
            1 year ago

            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.worldOPEnglish
              81·
              1 year ago

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

    • zebus@lemmy.zipEnglish
      67·
      1 year ago

      For real, wish I lived in the UK so I could get all my friends to adopt signal finally lol