The UK Government has taken on fighting our personal security, our right to privacy and to assert its right to undermine global standards help criminals along the way.

Apple has today ceased to allow UK users to access Advanced Data Protection – or encryption of personal contacts, photos and other information.

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UK citizens’ data at risk
The UK has secretly instructed Apple to add backdoors to its product, so that the UK can access anyone’s data – anyone in the world. Apple has refused and instead withdrawn the product in the UK.

If you thought Trump was mad, bad and dangerous, then it is time to say the same of the UK Home Office. The attack on Apple is the result of years of a build up of powers to restrict encryption in the UK. Secretly exercised powers that the UK government will not talk about.

These UK powers target security technology which stop our personal information being accessed by criminals and abused, for fraud, espionage and blackmail.

Today, UK users are less secure and less private. What technologies will be next? WhatsApp, Signal and many other messaging technologies could be in the UK’s sights. Worse still, the UK order claims to apply globally – so Apple are not compliant simply by withdrawing the tech from the UK.

Exercising powers that cause such harm is not simple and easy. It is flying in the face of common sense. It is nearly impossible to do secretly as the government wishes.

The government is acting incredibly stupidly. That is why this has become public.

This outrageous attack must be stopped – and it can be stopped.

The UK must withdraw its threats to Apple. The laws allowing these abuses must be repealed.

SOURCE: Open Rights Group

Government wants to look at your private messages

The government has just issued a secret order to have constant access to ALL of our iPhone data.

This won’t apply to just us as UK citizens, but the entire world.

It is completely unprecedented for a Government in any democracy to take away our ability to have a private conversation, without the state listening in, from millions of its own citizens – let alone the world.

Encrypting our data is like closing our curtains or locking our doors. It is the foundation of online privacy and today’s attack directly undermines your right to have a private conversation and keep your family’s photos secure.

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Keir Starmer’s US Visit Set for Tense Talks as VP JD Vance Criticizes UK Censorship Laws

Starmer’s US visit comes amid rising tensions over free speech and the UK’s Online Safety Act.

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in for a “treat” next week – his first visit to the US since the new administration took over.

Even before Vice President JD Vance touched on this visit in an exclusive interview published on Wednesday by the National Pulse, it was clear from the way the Anglo-American ties are developing (or, deteriorating) on a number of key issues, that Starmer’s trip could be a tense affair.

More: Keir Starmer’s Censorship Playbook

But now, Vance has confirmed that the topic of free speech will also be on the table. Not something the Trump administration considers one of the UK’s strong suits at the moment – in fact, London has been repeatedly criticized, particularly for its sweeping censorship law, the Online Safety Act.

The legislation has the unfortunate quality of at once managing to threaten free speech and big US tech company’s business interests.

Vance recently made waves at the Munich Security Conference when he schooled stunned EU and UK elites about many issues related to democratic practices and values that they like to declaratively support, but are in reality undermining – something the VP summed up as, “the treat from within.”

Vance at the time paid special attention to “our very dear friends, the United Kingdom,” citing examples of what he clearly considers to be a form of persecution of British citizens on religious and/or ideological grounds.

But, will Vance and other US officials repeat these and a host of other concerns, during meetings with Starmer?

“We certainly will,” he said. “This is not hard (…) We’re simply telling them to respect the values on which our civilization was founded, that you ought to debate with one another, your government should respect when the people have a dissenting viewpoint. It’s very simple, and it’s very obvious.”

Revisiting the issue of “shared values” – a mostly nebulous platitude that’s become popular among liberal governments and legacy media over the last years – Vance said that freedom of the people to express their disagreement with the authorities, without fear of legal ramifications, has to be “one of the most important shared values.”

During the interview, Vance also insisted that his Munich speech wasn’t designed to shift all the blame for the “censorship regime” that has developed to European governments, but pointed out that transatlantic cooperation, especially during the previous US administration, produced what he calls a common “censorship problem” – and one that President Trump now intends to tackle.

SOURCE: Reclaim The Net

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