Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: surveillance

Our challenge against UK’s secret TCN powers | Privacy International + Liberty file suit against the UK government regarding Apple backdoor demand

2025/03/13
Privacy International’s letter to the UK Home Office demanding transparency on Technical Capability Notices | Privacy International

2025/03/09
The Dangers Lurking in the U.K.’s Plan for Electronic Eavesdropping | Lawfare | Susan Landau | …HMG zealotry against encryption leads to strategic risk

2025/03/08
“A back door to encrypted data could help to protect the public” | The Times | BWAHAHAHA MUST READ

2025/03/07
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
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
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: do banking transactions count as “user to user” communication services & social media under the UK & AU Online Safety Acts?

2025/03/03
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