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A UK Government Order Threatens the Privacy and Security of All Internet Users

Earlier this year, the United Kingdom government ordered Apple to provide access to encrypted data in the company’s cloud storage service, iCloud. In response, Apple removed its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) system for users in the country, removing the option to store data using end-to-end encryption, and setting a dangerous precedent of privacy violation. 

Encryption Makes Us Powerful: Internet Society Hosts Encryption Advocacy Workshop for European Civil Society

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 20, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Gemini Links 19/04/2025: Contingencies, GTD, and Old Computers
    Links for the day
  2. Links 19/04/2025: Economic Races, Charm Offensives, and USB-C Rants
    Links for the day
  3. Links 19/04/2025: "Infantilization at Big Tech" and LLM Slop Abused in Defiance of Workplace Rules/Policies
    Links for the day
  4. Gemini Links 19/04/2025: Palm Addiction and Real Experts
    Links for the day
  5. Egypt is Controlled by Google, Not Microsoft
    Moving from Microsoft to Google is not the answer
  6. Microsofters Say They Cannot Find a Job (That They Want) Because of Techrights, But Techrights Merely Reported on Their Behaviour
    Quit pointing the finger at people who are recipients of abuse or merely mention the abuse
  7. Free Software and Standards - Not Marketing Blitz - Needed Amid Growing Severity of Dependency on Hostile Suppliers (or Another Country's Sovereignty)
    ZenDiS can be described as the "Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration"
  8. When It Comes to the Web, Google is Evil and It Destroys the Web's Integrity With LLM Slop
    Even academia, which is meant to keep standards high, is being lured into LLM slop
  9. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  10. IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 18, 2025
    IRC logs for Friday, April 18, 2025

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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