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UK government tries again to access encrypted Apple customer data: Report | TechCrunch
You have to wonder: if no Britons can use it then what on earth do the Home Office think they are going to be intercepting? Or is this just a battle that they “must win”? https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/uk-government-tries-again-to-access-encrypted-apple-customer-data-report/
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The Law of the Server is the Law of the Site: a Trans-Atlantic Free Speech Defense Doctrine | Preston Byrne | …broadening the US/Europe free-speech impedance mismatch…
Taylor Wessing’s note correctly identifies that practically all European tech regulation, including [DSA & GDPR] is potentially vulnerable if U.S. companies decide to force European speech & data protection regulators to behave like any other European state or non-state actor, and render service through the treaties […becoming] vulnerable to constitutional attack the moment it is
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UK makes new attempt to access Apple cloud data | FT
Can anyone smell a dead horse? The UK government has issued a new order to Apple to create a backdoor into its cloud storage service, this time targeting only British users’ data, despite US claims that Britain had abandoned all attempts to break the tech giant’s encryption. https://www.ft.com/content/d101fd62-14f9-4f51-beff-ea41e8794265 and https://archive.ph/5QXk3
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UK Digital ID Cards: is the Government going to compensate UK business for losses due to forcing them to accept additional business risk?
I spent the best part of 14 hours yesterday learning how to argue with people who, perhaps blindly, believe that Digital ID will bring “advantages” to “everybody”; a detailed example was “renting a car” which demands both an identity document and an independent proof of recent address, such as a utility bill. I was told
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Cyber Waffle: “They Changed The Online Safety Act” ; this guy has done several decent videos, I wish he wasn’t doing the hoodie cyber anon-schtick, but the content is mostly sane…
A reasonable 8 minutes of time, allowing for advertising:
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Nixon: You may not have read about the time he told a dinner party at the White House, “I could leave this room, and in 25 minutes, 70 million people would be dead”
American Presidents, eh? Nuclear weapons: How Cold War major Harold Hering asked a forbidden question that cost him his career https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/02/nuclear-weapons-how-cold-war-major-harold-hering-asked-a-forbidden-question-that-cost-him-his-career.html
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Online Safety Act: A well-intentioned disaster? | Professional Security Magazine
As internet users become desensitised to handing over their confidential information to websites, we could see attackers spoofing age verification domains in a bid to steal confidential information, such as passport details or driving licences. These phishing attacks are especially dangerous because they appear entirely plausible in the context of the Act. https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/interviews/online-safety-act-a-well-intentioned-disaster/
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…of course when Imgur self-censors itself out of the UK, it takes with it all of the websites that use it as a kind of CDN for OC
Oh dear. I wonder what else is impacted? Reddit?
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An Indian court [ruled] that [X], as a foreign company, does not have a constitutional right to free speech under Indian law
Indians should perhaps get angry that Indian Users on X are thus impacted: India court rejects X’s ‘free speech’ argument, backs government takedown powers | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/india-court-rejects-xs-free-speech-argument-backs-government-takedown-powers/
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Vitalik Buterin Warns EU Surveillance Plan Threatens Digital Privacy
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vitalik-buterin-warns-eu-surveillance-174743693.html
censorship chat control client side scanning end to end encryption privacy surveilance Vitalik ButerinFediverse reactions