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/

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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 threadAdamFeb 22, 2025

@aral

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

Surely even if you're not in the UK you should cancel your iCloud subscription. The government ordered a backdoor to iCloud accounts worldwide. The B.B.C. article even says "It is not clear that Apple's actions will fully address those concerns, as the IPA order applies worldwide and ADP will continue to operate in other countries"

Show threadAral Balkan
@adamsaidsomething The way they’ve complied doesn’t warrant that (no pun intended) at the moment. Then again, who knows what they’ll do next and who knows what other countries will now demand after this precedent.
Feb 22, 2025 at 8:16amWeb
Show threadAdamFeb 22, 2025

@aral

We can only rely on whistleblowers to know what they'll do next (tho we can make some pretty good guesses) since these things come with strict gag orders