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The government is suggesting that it might ban some Apple security updates. Under the latest plans, tech companies would need to notify the British government before rolling out a security fix but might be refused permission if it blocks a vulnerability that’s being exploited by security services.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

As opposed to the EU legislating tech companies, the UK is so. much. worse.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is probably one of the reasons Tories pushed for Brexit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

To be fair I think they were quite split on the issue, I think the back benchers were more pro Brexit but the more prominent Tories were remainers.

[–] greyfrog 2 points 10 months ago

The EU are trying to backdoor E2E encryption too. Ipersonallyy think the EU is great but don't be so sure that everything they do is so benign.