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Apple privacy letter (Law enforcement through your phone)

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themadhippy:

--- Quote --- Sajid Javid, UK Health Secretary, said it was time for others, especially Facebook, to follow suit
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What happened to the usual government  statement trotted out when privacy concerns are raise "you have nothing to fear if you haven't done anything wrong" although im guessing there will be a version available without  the "feature" especially for government officials in the name of national security.

bd139:
I would suspect so considering the nature of our government to do things wrong :)

Ranayna:
What really irks me about this shit:
Most people i know are not technically minded *at all*. If i would start explaining this to them, they would cheer Apple on for fighting against child abuse, and brand me at best an idiot, and at worst a potential sex offender, because i do not want my pictures scanned.  |O
That is not even starting about the potential abuses this will get in the future.

bd139:
Surprisingly the non technical folk I know who I have mentioned this too have gone "what the fuck" as well which is a good thing. There has been a lot of press here over the last couple of years about "big tech" and surveillance culture which has demonised such things.

The killer is mentioning the risk of false positives when communicating with them.

rstofer:
Apple wouldn't unlock the cell phone belonging to a known terrorist and now they want to go pawing through everybody's iPhone, iPad and computer.  This isn't just limited to cell phones, you know.  It applies to i<everything>.

They're screwed at this point.  Even if they publicly back away from this proposal, nobody will EVER trust them again.  How do we know they're not doing it quietly?  How could they even consider doing something like this?

In a perfect world, Apple would be out of business on Monday.


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