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fromTheregister
2 days ago

UK surveillance law still full of holes, watchdog warns

UK surveillance law has regulatory gaps allowing unoversighted retention of foreign privileged intelligence and exempting some UKIC breaches from mandatory reporting, requiring Home Office-led reform.
fromArs Technica
2 months ago

UK once again demands backdoor to Apple's encrypted cloud storage

Caroline Wilson Palow, legal director of the campaign group Privacy International, said the new order might be "just as big a threat to worldwide security and privacy" as the old one. She said: "If Apple breaks end-to-end encryption for the UK, it breaks it for everyone. The resulting vulnerability can be exploited by hostile states, criminals, and other bad actors the world over."
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fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

UK government tries again to access encrypted Apple customer data: report | TechCrunch

The U.K. government seeks an order compelling Apple to enable access to encrypted iCloud backups, risking a backdoor that could undermine global user privacy.
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fromwww.bbc.com
3 months ago

Court documents shed new light on UK-Apple row over user data

UK government sought legal powers under the Investigatory Powers Act to compel Apple to access globally encrypted ADP user data, potentially including non-UK users.
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