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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 01:16:04 JST Aral Balkan

   If you’re in the UK, cancel your iCloud subscription.

   (Or the government will have access to all your data. Just like how things work in China.)

   Your best bet is to take offline backups yourself as any cloud service provider that does business in the UK will have to either do the same or leave the market.

   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo

   PS. This is why we left the UK ten years ago. So we could on our own terms and wouldn’t have to do so later on. https://ar.al/notes/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/

   #UK #surveillance #Apple #icloud https://mastodon.social/@vascorsd/114042733377696746

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     Jason Anthony Guy (jasonanthonyguy@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 17:14:42 JST Jason Anthony Guy

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     • vascorsd

     @aral @vascorsd The government *already* had access to your iCloud data, in or out of the UK, unless you had ADP enabled.

     Pulling it from the UK didn’t change that, except on the edges for those who had it enabled (or would have done so).

     ADP is a massive privacy improvement, but most customers aren't using it and were (and remain) vulnerable to spying.

     This is an effective return to the status quo from before ADP was introduced in Dec. 2022.

     And naturally, Apple won't leave this market.…

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 17:14:42 JST Aral Balkan

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     • vascorsd
     • Jason Anthony Guy

     @JasonAnthonyGuy @vascorsd Naturally, under capitalism. Which is anything but natural.

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     Adam (adamsaidsomething@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 17:17:00 JST Adam

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     @aral

     Re: "If you’re in the UK, cancel your iCloud subscription."

     Surely even if you're not in the UK you should cancel your iCloud subscription. The government ordered a backdoor to iCloud accounts worldwide. The B.B.C. article even says "It is not clear that Apple's actions will fully address those concerns, as the IPA order applies worldwide and ADP will continue to operate in other countries"

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 17:17:00 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Adam

     @adamsaidsomething The way they’ve complied doesn’t warrant that (no pun intended) at the moment. Then again, who knows what they’ll do next and who knows what other countries will now demand after this precedent.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 17:20:45 JST Aral Balkan

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     • RussianChineseDeepStateSock

     @milkman76 Yeah, how about we don’t fanboi any authoritarian regime or, heck, even not assume anyone’s ethnicity from their photo alone. In any case, you may go now.

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     RussianChineseDeepStateSock (milkman76@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 17:20:46 JST RussianChineseDeepStateSock

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     @aral "just like how it is in china" lmao sinophobic white imbeciles the world 'round.

     Meanwhile the only country on earth qualified as a "tankie" nation is the US, who have been using armored vehicles and tanks against peaceful protestors since tanks and armored vehicles have existed. 😆

     If a nation/state is going to have my data, Im going to wager that nations that have NOT terrorized the world for 100+ years for PROFIT are better off with it.