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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Last Friday, while leaders around the Western world were up in arms about J.D. Vance's confrontational address to the Munich Security Council, the Washington Post published a good old-fashioned piece of journalism. From "U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts": Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud, people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post. ... [The] Home Secretary has served Apple with ... a technical capability notice, ordering it to provide access under the sweeping U.K. Investigatory Powers Act of 2016, which authorizes law enforcement to compel assistance from companies ... The law, known by critics as the Snoopers' Charter, makes it a criminal offense to reveal that the government has even made such a demand. read more


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