[Politics] Apple security and the Labour Orwellian state

pocketseagull said:

Whistleblowers, repressive regimes etc need this protection and losing it because our current Government can probably be trusted is short sighted.

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Zeus said:

This is pretty disturbing imo. Looks like Apple have had to make concessions on what was their primary brand value that user data would never be accessible to anyone but the user and now the government has forced them to remove encryption that protects your data. Even worse why are Labour hell bent on being able to snoop on all of us and erode our rights to privacy? We really are racing into quite scary Orwellian territory imo.

Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row - BBC News

Customers' photos and documents stored online will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Creaky said:

This argument comes up every time government agencies gain extra powers, ID cards are proposed etc.

My question to those putting this forward is why do so many of us have curtains?

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Peteinblack said:

You sound a bit paranoid - what have you got to hide, and why do you think Labour want to 'snoop' on you; are you that special, or radical?

You sound like those anti-vaxxers who were convinced that Covid was a conspiracy to inject us with microchips or whatever so 'they' could monitor us and keep us under surveillance.

Guess what - 'they' can keep tracks on your whereabouts and views merely by tracking your Smartphone activity.

Of all the things to worry about in the world today, and you choose to get het up about this!

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Han Solo said:

National security ("chasing terrorists") is literally the reason why people in "1984" accept that societal structure. I'm not saying Orwellian/totalitarian society is good or bad, but the scenario OP described is definitely Orwellian.

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Weststander said:

Done for very good reason? Terrorism, enemies of our nation, organised crime.

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jcdenton08 said:

Is this kind of thinking related to the kind of anti-Semitic conspiracy stuff you’ve previously spouted (shat out) which is presently getting the forum investigated by the police?

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tigertim68 said:

More like Labour is turning this country into a police state

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pocketseagull said:

Deary me. Questions around privacy and civil liberties are now anti-semitic? Well done on shoe-horning your dislike of Swansman into a thread in quite a mad way.

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