The UK government has forced Apple to remove Advanced Data Protection, or in other words, allow a backdoor to your encrypted data stored in iCloud. This is bad for lots of reasons, like privacy, gives hackers / bad actors a way into your data and is a first step on the road to a totalitarian government, not too dissimilar with what's happened in America with Trump whom I don't doubt will demand the same thing in time. And of course, the pretexts are things like "protecting" against terrorism and "protecting" the children to justify why they're doing this. However, the real reason is control of people.
Expect this to now spread like wildfire across the world, especially totalitarian regimes and across all the big companies like Microsoft, Google, etc. This is the start of your private data no longer being safe from prying eyes. You know, I do find it curious how this has only been reported on after Apple pulled ADP. Almost like they didn't want people to rush to enable it beforehand, hmmm... Mind you, it will also be removed from people who've already enabled it, at a later date, so they're not safe either.
This is what one sees if they try to enable it now:
Expect this to now spread like wildfire across the world, especially totalitarian regimes and across all the big companies like Microsoft, Google, etc. This is the start of your private data no longer being safe from prying eyes. You know, I do find it curious how this has only been reported on after Apple pulled ADP. Almost like they didn't want people to rush to enable it beforehand, hmmm... Mind you, it will also be removed from people who've already enabled it, at a later date, so they're not safe either.
This is what one sees if they try to enable it now:
Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
Customers' photos and documents stored online will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption.
www.bbc.co.uk
