Aral BalkanFeb 21, 2025

If you’re in the UK, cancel your iCloud subscription.

(Or the government will have access to all your data. Just like how things work in China.)

Your best bet is to take offline backups yourself as any cloud service provider that does business in the UK will have to either do the same or leave the market.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo

PS. This is why we left the UK ten years ago. So we could on our own terms and wouldn’t have to do so later on. https://ar.al/notes/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/

#UK #surveillance #Apple #icloud https://mastodon.social/@vascorsd/114042733377696746

Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row

Customers' photos and documents stored online will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption.

Show threadJason Anthony GuyFeb 22, 2025

@aral @vascorsd The government *already* had access to your iCloud data, in or out of the UK, unless you had ADP enabled.

Pulling it from the UK didn’t change that, except on the edges for those who had it enabled (or would have done so).

ADP is a massive privacy improvement, but most customers aren't using it and were (and remain) vulnerable to spying.

This is an effective return to the status quo from before ADP was introduced in Dec. 2019.

And naturally, Apple won't leave this market.…

Show threadAral Balkan
@JasonAnthonyGuy @vascorsd Naturally, under capitalism. Which is anything but natural.
Feb 22, 2025 at 8:14amWeb