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Apple Says It Will Exit The UK Market If Government Passes Update To Investigatory Powers Act (www.techdirt.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Apple Says It Will Exit The UK Market If Government Passes Update To Investigatory Powers Act::Apple fought the law and -- contrary to the song lyrics -- it won. Years later, Apple decided it would get ahead of the law enforcement curve by attempting to engage in client-side scanning of iPhone users' content. That worked out less well for Apple, which (at least momentarily) decided making governments happy was more…

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, it's a super coconut clickbait-y title. For anyone else, here's the relevant bit:

Because of that, Apple’s comment submission lets the UK government know that if it moves ahead with these changes, UK customers will no longer have access to FaceTime or iMessage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Honestly I think protestors/political parties could point this out and get a tonne of support because so many Normie's would kick up more of a fuss over this than brexit. Sigh.

[–] nathris 1 points 2 years ago

That's existing customers. Millions of devices suddenly with no way to send even SMS messages, since those also pass through Apple iMessage servers.

There won't be many alternatives either. Signal and WhatsApp have said they are leaving as well.

Google will probably be forced to shut down RCS functionality for it's UK based android users as well.