Apple is removing Advanced Data Protection from UK consumers. ADP allows account holders to protect their data with end-to-end encryption – even Apple cannot access it. This month Labour demanded access to that data…
What this means is that before too long all data stored by UK consumers on iCloud will be accessible by the state if it obtains a warrant to do so. The government wanted a backdoor to data which Apple did not provide, hence the removal of the ADP service. Unprecedented.
As of 3:00 p.m. the service has begun to be pulled after the Home Office served Apple under the Investigatory Powers Act. JD Vance also said this month that “the Trump administration is troubled by reports that some foreign governments are considering tightening the screws on US tech companies with international footprints.” A huge infringement of the right to privacy by the government…
There will be ways around the infringement, of course. Another hoop to jump through…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”