Labour has been forced to drop plans to demand Apple break the end-to-end encryption used to secure iPhone users’ private data. A huge infringement of the right to privacy by the government…
After backlash from privacy campaigners as well as Trump and JD Vance, Yvette Cooper has been made to withdraw the order she made back in February. Trump’s director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said:
“Over the past few months, I’ve been working closely with our partners in the UK, alongside @POTUS and @VP, to ensure Americans’ private data remains private and our Constitutional rights and civil liberties are protected. As a result, the UK has agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to provide a ‘back door’ that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and encroached on our civil liberties.”
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been on Trump’s good side since gifting him a custom made gold Apple plaque earlier this month. Time to force Labour to cave in on the free speech-censoring Online Safety Bill…
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”