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Why so extreme, I believe they only will have to stop providing their premium iCloud service to the UK as this is the one that have E2E encryption and thus woul
by zero0529 2y ago
Why so extreme, I believe they only will have to stop providing their premium iCloud service to the UK as this is the one that have E2E encryption and thus would be affected?
- WhyNotHugo 2y agoAs long as the company operates as a legal entity in the country, the government can force it to comply with its mandates. It doesn't matter if the specific service is offered in the UK or not.
- Ekaros 2y agoSame applies to USA and clouds hosted in Europe. Only real move way is to start creating local corporate structures. Maybe even entirely separate companies. And have the infra in those areas. So UK customers are served from UK servers by UK company. USA customers from USA servers by USA company. And EU customers from EU servers by EU company. Repeat for enough. Maybe if some of these agree to play fully nice with legislation and privacy there could be some cross work. But seeing how even EU is moving, I am doubtful.
- mozball 2y agoAccording to WaPo, the secret order demands blanket access to cloud data from any user anywhere in the world : http://archive.today/79dA3 http://archive.today/79dA3
- nickslaughter02 2y ago> from any user anywhere in the world Is that even legal? At the very least, doesn't it break some EU privacy laws?
- swiftcoder 2y agoPost-Brexit, I imagine that's a feature of the request, not a bug, at least from the UK's standpoint
- stephen_g 2y agoWhy would the UK Government care about that? They’re not bound by the EU’s laws. They’re trying to force Apple to secretly break the EU and other countries’ laws, and don’t care as long as they get what they want…
- nickslaughter02 2y agoWouldn't that warrant a reaction from the EU then? I haven't seen any.