Apple slams UK surveillance-bill proposals
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The technology giant says it could remove services such as FaceTime from the UK over potential changes
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I wonder how many complaining here actually read even this bland and uninformative article.

At issue I believe (because it is not stated, but discussed elsewhere in better venues) is that UK wants to be able to see inside encrypted comms and files, under the guise of CSAM detection. Apple is right to oppose it.

Arguments based on hypocrisy real or perceived in other venues (china) has nothing to do with this decision its just piss-taking. Give it a rest.

Other than their asinine charging cable/accessory situations I consistently find myself agreeing with Apple pretty much any time any government body or group is mad they won’t do something.

They’re generally on the wrong side of the battle for right to repair and removable batteries too.

But yeah, privacy they almost always have the right of it.

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Requiring usb c was something I agreed with. But indeed many times apple has rightly fought for their userbase.

how do you reckon?

only time they have been on the consumer’s side was with regards to privacy, refusing to comply with the FBI and now this.

everything else they are pretty anti-consumer, off the top of my head

  • first to remove jack 3.5 (even though I don’t really care about this, others do.)
  • sticking to shitty lightning cable so they can sell overpriced cables
  • the charger thing with the EU
  • worst of all entirely against right to repair
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To be fair, those first three points fall squarely under that “charging cable/accessory situations” exception. With Apple, it turns out that’s a pretty broad exception.

Honestly modern phones not having 3.5mm doesn’t bother me nearly as much as the loss of micro SD

I’m never getting a phone without a micro SD port

so basically apple doesn’t want government spyware on their phones

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Exactly! Apple wants to make sure the personal data they hand out is directly from them.

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