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LABOUR’S demand for Apple to grant authorities access to encrypted cloud data poses a serious threat to the privacy rights of users worldwide, human rights groups have warned.
The Washington Post reported that the secret order was issued by the Home Office in January.
It concerns Advanced Data Protection, an iPhone setting which uses end-to-end encryption on cloud-stored data to ensure only users can access it.
Our priority must be to defend hard-won protections while linking equality law to trade union power and wider social transformation, says MARY DAVIS, on behalf of the Women’s Liberation Alliance
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
