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encryption
The UK’s National Crime Agency has revealed how it plans to force Apple to open up encryption to it. Will it work?
Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo together have a lot of clout. More than the UK government?
One iPhone to unlock or hundreds? And what about all those expensive UFEDs, which are designed to do just that?
Instead of users being pawns in the game played by politicians against Apple, Apple could step aside and leave the politicians to deal with users direct.
Our politicians are busy playing unintended consequences again.
Compare the approaches to privacy in medical research with those in commercial marketing.
Much of our data protection and privacy law dates from the last century. Instead of breaking privacy down, politicians should be protecting it better.
For once, Apple’s stand could be broken by forthcoming UK legislation, in the form of the Investigatory Powers Bill.
Backdoors will be exploited, and can only result in unintentional consequences. They would put the economy and society at risk.
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