UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites | TechCrunch | it’s nice to get coverage…

The U.K. government appears to have quietly scrubbed encryption advice from government web pages, just weeks after demanding backdoor access to encrypted data stored on Apple’s cloud storage service, iCloud.


The change was spotted by security expert Alec Muffet, who wrote in a blog post on Wednesday that the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is no longer recommending that high-risk individuals use encryption to protect their sensitive information.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/uk-quietly-scrubs-encryption-advice-from-government-websites/

Fediverse reactions

Comments

One response to “UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites | TechCrunch | it’s nice to get coverage…”

  1. […] article by former colleague Professor Susan Landau highlights the UK Government’s pervasive fear of user privacy and end to end encryption via something I was previously unaware: breaking from the rest of the “Five Eyes” re: […]

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *