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Apple Suggest They Will Withdraw iMessage and FaceTime In UK If Law Changes Go Ahead

www.theguardian.com Apple suggests iMessage and FaceTime could be withdrawn in UK over law change

US tech firm says giving government oversight of security changes could endanger encrypted products

Apple has said planned changes to British surveillance laws could affect iPhone users’ privacy by forcing it to withdraw security features, which could ultimately lead to the closure of services such as FaceTime and iMessage in the UK.

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Apple warns iMessage and FaceTime could be withdrawn in UK over law change

www.theguardian.com /technology/2023/jul/20/uk-surveillance-law-changes-could-force-apple-to-withdraw-security-features

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Good. Let's all move to signal
- Signal have already said they will withdraw completely from the UK, as have WhatsApp, Session and a few others.
  
  Lol UK losing WhatsApp. Yikes.
  
  Yeah. Whatsapp's the big one in europe.
  
  EU when?
  A service i would gladly lose completely
  
  If and when Signal is packaged for F-Droid, how is the British government going to stop people in the UK from using Signal?
  
  Knowing this gvmt, they'll try and prevent access at the ISP level. They've already started making noises about tackling 'the menace of VPN's'.
  
  They'll be out in six months to a year and since it takes them forever to achieve anything I wouldn't worry.
  If you've got to have a right wing fascist government hope for an incompetent one.
  
  Which would be fine except Starmer approves of all the things contained in the various bits of legislation.
  
  I never would've thought that the US would be the place for better privacy
  
  How will that prevent people from using them?
- No, move to something that's federated and not run by a corporation
- For real, wish I lived in the UK so I could get all my friends to adopt signal finally lol
  
  Signal will shut down too though lol

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