The Home Office is quietly pushing through a major assault on online security—demanding that Apple create a backdoor so the government can access encrypted data from nearly any iPhone user’s cloud storage. Labour pushing through new powers to snoop on people’s data…
WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart has now fired a warning shot to Yvette Cooper’s order saying on X:
“If the UK forces a global backdoor into Apple’s security, it will make everyone in every country less safe. One country’s secret order risks putting all of us in danger and it should be stopped.”
Fears are growing that Cooper’s order, pushed through under the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act – better known as the “Snoopers’ Charter” – will open the door for the government to strong-arm other tech firms into handing over user data. US lawmakers have already raised the alarm, writing to Donald Trump’s new intelligence chief, Tulsi Gabbard, to condemn the UK’s actions as “effectively a foreign cyberattack” on Apple. Meanwhile, JD Vance has just slammed the UK for backsliding on free speech and “basic liberties.” This latest order won’t do anything to improve America’s growing concerns about Britain’s direction under Starmer…
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”