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#enshittification
#technology
#encryption

🔐 This is a really important case to watch for the future of #encryption.

bbc.com/news/articles/cvgn1lz3

It is still important for #Apple customers to hold them accountable when they claim to be "the #privacy company" especially with the recent #Siri settlement for allegedly eavesdropping on conversations.

Apple's logo shown on a store front in Malaysia
www.bbc.comApple-UK data privacy row should not be secret, court rulesThe UK government sought to keep details of its row with Apple over requested access to its encrypted cloud storage tool private.
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@JessTheUnstill @Pibble

And yes, I treat all devices as insecure and would rather invest the time and effort needed get #TechIlliterates up to speed on the #OfflinePGP method!

Given the cheapness of storage (legitimate 1TB microSD cards exist and they ain't 4-digit items!) I'd legitimately look into #OTP #encryption and (IF I had the €€€€€€ to do so!) would even sponsor implementing it in #OpenVPN, #WireGuard and #OpenSSH (for #SSH-Tunmeling).

  • The #US is a #RogueNation with a Rogue Government! The sooner we accept this reality the sooner we can not only adjust to it but act accordingly…

I sincerely wish y'all could legitimately call me a tinfoilhat but so far I've been proven right all the time...

A judge has sided with a coalition of civil liberties groups and news organisations - including the BBC - and ruled a legal row between the UK government and Apple over data privacy cannot be held in secret.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgn1l

Apple's logo shown on a store front in Malaysia
BBC NewsApple-UK data privacy row should not be secret, court rulesThe UK government sought to keep details of its row with Apple over requested access to its encrypted cloud storage tool private.
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Earlier this year, the UK government ordered Apple to grant it access to encrypted data stored by Apple users worldwide in its cloud service.

The secret order was made under the Investigatory Powers Act and the government has tried to keep the public in the dark ever since. Even when Apple appealed the order.

Now there will be some level of transparency with today's decision.

reuters.com/technology/apple-a

BREAKING: The UK government's attempt to hold the Apple encryption case entirely in secret has been REJECTED.

ORG, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship made a submission to the court arguing for open justice.

In a win for privacy rights, the court agrees.

It said it didn't accept “that the revelation of the bare details of the case would be damaging to the public interest or prejudicial to national security”.

openrightsgroup.org/press-rele

Open Rights GroupIPT supports ORG’s call for open hearing in Apple encryption caseThe court responsible for hearing Apple’s challenge against the UK Government demanding that it breaks encryption has rejected the Home Office’s bid to have the case heard in secret.