• 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

• Biden Justice Department downplayed U.K. demand for Apple ‘back door’ | The Washington Post

  2025/02/27

• 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

• Twitter Poll: ‘Do you think Apple would be right to withdraw from the market a “strong privacy” product that contains a Government backdoor?’

  2025/02/21

• Useful Phrase for anyone, today, discussing the UK/Apple/Encryption thing: “Comity of Nations”

  2025/02/21

• Apple in 2016 | A Message to Our Customers | “…government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers…”

  2025/02/21

• HOT TIP: PUSH BACK HARD AGAINST CRYPTOWAR AMATEURS WHO ATTEMPT TO PAINT APPLE WITHDRAWAL AS CAPITULATION

  2025/02/21