Comment by GeekyBear
1 day ago
> Apple told them they’d rather get out of UK
To my knowledge, Apple has always said that their response would be to withdraw affected services rather than break encryption.
> Apple has said planned changes to British surveillance laws could affect iPhone users’ privacy by forcing it to withdraw security features, which could ultimately lead to the closure of services such as FaceTime and iMessage in the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/20/uk-survei...
True! Thanks for the correction.
IMO they could’ve categorized the whole iCloud service as “affected” and disable all of it.
My guess is that the order they received would have only effected encrypted device backups, at least so far.
Users in the UK do still have the option to perform an encrypted backup to their local PC or Mac.