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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 (1br0wn@eupolicy.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Feb-2025 17:55:40 JST Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻

The UK Home Office (interior ministry) appears to have forgotten entirely about the "independent" Technical Advisory Board #TAB whose advice it legally must take when #Apple appeals its secret order ("Technical Capability Notice” leaked to the Washington Post) to compromise #iPhone/ #ADP security worldwide to enable future surveillance by the UK 🤡🤡
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366619028/Apple-British-techies-to-advise-on-devastating-UK-global-crypto-power-grab
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  Apple: British techies to advise on “devastating” UK global crypto power grab | Computer Weekly
  
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  An obscure British government committee is to be asked this month to advise Home Secretary Yvette Cooper whether to go ahead with government demands that Apple provide British agents with a secret backdoor to break into the companies iCloud Advanced Data Protection system, enabling British spies to secretly copy and read users’ private data. The government committee, called the Technical Advisory Board (TAB), is charged with reviewing secret legal orders given to internet communications companies to arrange surveillance of their users, and to copy their emails and files, or to monitor their calls and videos. Enquiries by Computer Weekly this week revealed, astonishingly, that the Home Office had failed to renew the contracts for TAB members. According to a leak to the Washington Post, previously reported here, the Home Office issued a “Technical Capability Notice” to Apple in January, ordering them to remove “electronic protection” to “allow access to data that is otherwise unavailable due to encryption.” The company has 28 days to ask the Home Secretary to review the order.

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