Comment on Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon.

ryannathans@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• hiire@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hate how people turn a blind eye to these things nowadays. They’re willing to give away their personal lives at the expense of the shittiest excuses out there. Privacy should be a necessity, ffs.

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• perviouslyiner@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “protect the public from criminals, child sex abusers and terrorists”

  Aren’t two of those just subsets of the first one?

  What a curious pair of emotionally manipulative examples to choose, when it adds absolutely no extra meaning to the Home Office’s statement.

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  • darcy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i would assume they mean ‘criminals, especially…’, but classic tHiNk oF tHe ChiLdReN argument

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• dunestorm@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why don’t they just actually give their actual reason: to spy on UK citizens.

  To use children and criminals as a scapegoat for this attrocity is disgusting.

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