Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: end to end encryption

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

2025/03/06
NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov’t expunge advice to “use Apple encryption” for Barristers, Solicitors (etc…) — co-incidental with Apple lawsuit against HMG’s demanding a backdoor in the same (HT @DavidDavisMP @PrivacyMatters @zsk)

2025/03/05
Breaking WhatsApp or Signal encryption: a dangerous political chimera | Le Monde, via Google Translate

2025/03/05
Apple takes legal action in UK data privacy row | BBC News

2025/03/04
Apple launches legal challenge to UK ‘back door’ order

2025/03/04
Dr Jessica Shurson on the (perennial) arguments that “…if only you *knew* how bad CSAM abuse is” — you would be willing to give up secure & private instant messaging

2025/03/03
France, too, pushing to make it illegal to have privacy online:

2025/03/02
Biden Justice Department downplayed U.K. demand for Apple ‘back door’ | The Washington Post

2025/02/27
Signal will abandon Sweden if the Swedish government’s data storage proposal is passed | SVT Nyheter

2025/02/25
Nice little blog post from Matt Green, although I’ll note he skipped the implicit Q2(b): “if surveillance was to apply only to UK persons, how would they be defined or distinguished?”

2025/02/24
NB: you can’t call for big platforms like Apple to literally *break a law* like the Investigatory Powers Act, unless you are also content for them to wilfully break (e.g.) *GDPR*

2025/02/22
Government has made UK user data ‘less secure’ with Apple row – Experts | The Independent

2025/02/21