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Dominic Preston @ The Verge 3 place · today 06:31 EDT

Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying

Apple has reportedly been ordered by the UK government to create a backdoor that would give security officials access to users’ encrypted iCloud backups. If implemented, British security services would have access to the backups of any user worldwide, not just Brits, and Apple would not be permitted to alert users that their encryption was […]

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