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reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Do you have citations for “Apple has rolled over forms enforcement in the past”? I’m wondering if this is country-specific.

Fortunately you can still back up your devices locally, and store your photos locally, and these backups can be encrypted.

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ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I don’t know about other countries, but Apple itself reports that it provided access to customer accounts at the US government’s request 90% of the time

www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html

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- reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  With a warrant.
  
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  - ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Sure, but if that’s your only concern, then you aren’t really concerned that to toggle is removed in the UK, either
    
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    reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Your definition of “rolling over” is different than mine.
    
    They’re requiring a warrant for the information. They don’t just hand over stuff at any request.
    
    They review the warrant before handing over the data. They don’t provide data in 100% of cases.
    
    They offer users end to end encryption, which would certainly make it difficult for the data recipient to decrypt if the data is handed over.
    
    They don’t offer the government a “backdoor” to make it easy to decrypt user data.
    
    They offer users the option to encrypt and store the data locally rather than uploading it to Apple.
    
    What would you have them do differently when the warrants issued are valid in the legal sense/approved by a judge?
    
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