Apple ready to pull iMessage and FaceTime from the UK if new privacy law gets passed

21 July 2023
WhatsApp and Signal are also against opening a backdoor to end-to-end encryption.

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They'll spy on you & you will be happy
This is what owellian envisioned 😢

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    • Anonymous
    • jwZ
    • 22 Jul 2023

    I'll be ready with my in-game high speed comm macros encrypting my speech and face into American Sign Language emotes in safer funner world.

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      • Anonymous
      • jwZ
      • 22 Jul 2023

      Or maybe the UK might just union with possibly the only confederate NA state of Montana to solidly ban iMessage, Facetime, and also TikTok app as well. Stranger things might happen if you imagine the possible.

        Nightmare101, 22 Jul 2023UK set to become the next CHINA soon except for cheap labour. In terms of freedom of speech (or lack of) they are already ahead of China. And they still worship an old white dude as their king. Kinda show who's actually backwards.

          Carol, 22 Jul 2023You probably, like many other here, confuse Democracy with ... moreThe proof is in the pudding. More people got jailed due to "hate speech" in the UK than in China. Nuff said. Go back to worshipping your old white king.

            [deleted post]Oh, nice argument here.

            So I lie, i can uninstall stock app (like App Store) on iphone and install an alternative one ? I didn't know iOS was open source and I cloud install my own os version with hardened security and no stock app on iphone ? X Doubt, I think I will be stuck sharing some of my data with Apple by using their default apps.

            There are flaws with Find my iphone off with reserve mode (search evil never sleep iOS vulnerability), major iOS FCP Zero Click are rewarded less than android (search Zerodium), these are fact you can't deny and search for yourself on internet (and there is a ton of other vulnerabilities).

            Android by default is not fully secure of course (like iOS), but at least with android you have the choice and possibly to create an os that could meet your security requirements. Or install easily an already made one like Grapheneos with hardened security and privacy, with no Google apps by default.

            It's way better than trusting an anti consumer company like Apple.

              So no one is aware of the typo in the title? It should be ready not read.🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️

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                • Anonymous
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                • 22 Jul 2023

                blue, 21 Jul 2023If Apple and Signal allow this, they are dead. Safety and s... moreI don't think so. People will still buy iPhones.
                Look at Google. Is the biggest data mining company out there. Still, millions of people buy Android phones or use Google apps each day (especially Maps and Chrome).
                The average consumers don't care about security issues or data tracking, as long as their phones work. By average consumers, I mean majority of smartphone users.
                The people who care 100% about security on their phones, are either tech geeks, public persons (actors, artists, etc.) or people that have something illegal to hide.

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                  • 22 Jul 2023

                  Chintu, 21 Jul 2023Today Apple, tomorrow Meta, day after tomorrow Google and s... moreIf you think messeging people over an app, or living in a virtual world is tech, then tech doomsday has already finished the first cicle.

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                    • 22 Jul 2023

                    potato4k, 22 Jul 2023It shows that all these western governnents really want to ... moreYou probably, like many other here, confuse Democracy with anarchy and think you know everything about it, while this "westerners" are so "brainwashed".

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                      • 22 Jul 2023

                      Yong Farlight84, 21 Jul 2023Donations! Hmm don't make me laugh 😊 They'll say... moreProve it. If you can't, don't speak.

                        My opinion is that, if people are being spied upon, they should clearly be informed on their phones, as to which exact organisation is keeping an eye on them, and for which exact case/lawsuit/reason.

                        Otherwise, there should be no spying, not even on NSA/ National Security levels.
                        However, with backdoors in everything,

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                          • Anonymous
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                          • 22 Jul 2023

                          Anyone remember anything about xkeyscore from snowden. It was leveraging the backdoors created by corporations for themselves.

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                            • Anonymous
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                            • 22 Jul 2023

                            This clearly shows IMessage FaceTime is not encrypted and apple has all the data of users

                              It shows that all these western governnents really want to be like China. Hilarious. And their citizens still think they are a democracy (while still worshipping a king, no less).

                                The UK needs out of the mindset that world revolves around them.

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                                  • 22 Jul 2023

                                  Nightmare101, 22 Jul 2023UK set to become the next CHINA soon except for cheap labour. But how is the west any different from China with all the cancelling done thru misgendering/metoo? And they laugh at China's social credit scores when they have the upcoming CBDCs.

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                                    • 22 Jul 2023

                                    Do the brits even use imessage? isnt only the US that live and breath for that shit?

                                      UK set to become the next CHINA soon except for cheap labour.

                                        If only iphone were secure and let users install / uninstall whatever they want on it (including the stock apps and even the os).

                                        Apple is don't care about their consumers, there is a reason that iOS FCP Zero Click are rewarded 500,000$ less than Android (Zerodium) : iOS is less secure than Android (eg "evil never sleep iOS" allow malware install with phone completely off), iCloud unlocks, remember vpn leaks, etc..

                                        For good privacy come first good security.