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Apple has attacked what it calls the UK's "unprecedented overreach" in proposing that it have the power of veto over all Big Tech security features across the globe.
The UK's House of Lords is due to debate an update to the country's Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) 2016 on January 30, 2024. In a much earlier form in 2015, the IPA was slammed by Apple for how it then proposed breaking encryption.
According to BBC News, Apple is now attacking the latest update proposals. Apple is against the UK having a veto over security updates, and also over how if the country were to exercise that veto, no Big Tech firm could even say that it has.
[...] Separately, in September 2023, the UK backed down from a nonsensical law after firms including Apple and WhatsApp said they would cease operating in the UK if the government passed a law requiring the breaking of end-to-end encryption.
The issue of Apple and others not being legally allowed to reveal that a government had vetoed a security update is similar to how the US forbade the company from revealing push notification surveillance.
(Score: 4, Funny) by maxwell demon on Thursday February 01 2024, @11:56AM (1 child)
On the other hand, now that they are no longer part of the EU market, companies could afford to just pull their products from the UK and then they could just ignore those laws entirely.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Freeman on Thursday February 01 2024, @02:54PM
Some companies could, others would be cutting off their nose to spite their face. The UK is still a major market by itself.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"