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If you’re in the UK, cancel your iCloud subscription.
(Or the government will have access to all your data. Just like how things work in China.)
Your best bet is to take offline backups yourself as any cloud service provider that does business in the UK will have to either do the same or leave the market.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo
PS. This is why we left the UK ten years ago. So we could on our own terms and wouldn’t have to do so later on. https://ar.al/notes/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/
#UK #surveillance #Apple #icloud https://mastodon.social/@vascorsd/114042733377696746
@aral Apple's definition of courage is removing a headphone jack. My definition of courage is living your life as someone that has gone through HRT and realising you didn't need anyone else's acceptance to exist.
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@aral yep, left the UK last year while being able to do so on our own time & terms.
That will be my iCloud subscription cancelled 
@TCMuffin did you have ADP enabled?
@TCMuffin I am super curious about how this plays out, and very happy to not be in the UK.
Me too…on both counts!
We looked at moving to Ireland (or the Netherlands) after brexshit, but my wife’s elderly father was still alive and she wasn’t comfortable with not being able to jump in the car if he needed her 
@aral Be in no two minds about it: Britain has been Digital China more than China has for the last 50 years at least. We are the most surveiled state.
@khleedril
All that 24/7 surveillance just because people want to avoid having to carry an ID card which most people hardly ever have to show in public.
@aral
what are your thoughts on Proton drive? I currently use them for backups.
@aral "just like how it is in china" lmao sinophobic white imbeciles the world 'round.
Meanwhile the only country on earth qualified as a "tankie" nation is the US, who have been using armored vehicles and tanks against peaceful protestors since tanks and armored vehicles have existed. 
If a nation/state is going to have my data, Im going to wager that nations that have NOT terrorized the world for 100+ years for PROFIT are better off with it.
@milkman76 Yeah, how about we don’t fanboi any authoritarian regime or, heck, even not assume anyone’s ethnicity from their photo alone. In any case, you may go now.
Re: "If you’re in the UK, cancel your iCloud subscription."
Surely even if you're not in the UK you should cancel your iCloud subscription. The government ordered a backdoor to iCloud accounts worldwide. The B.B.C. article even says "It is not clear that Apple's actions will fully address those concerns, as the IPA order applies worldwide and ADP will continue to operate in other countries"
@adamsaidsomething @aral Thank you. Everyone made such a big deal over this very important fact a few weeks ago, and totally forgot it today. Turning off ADP in the UK doesn’t fulfill the order. Maybe it’ll be good enough. We don’t know.
@adamsaidsomething The way they’ve complied doesn’t warrant that (no pun intended) at the moment. Then again, who knows what they’ll do next and who knows what other countries will now demand after this precedent.
We can only rely on whistleblowers to know what they'll do next (tho we can make some pretty good guesses) since these things come with strict gag orders
@aral @vascorsd The government *already* had access to your iCloud data, in or out of the UK, unless you had ADP enabled.
Pulling it from the UK didn’t change that, except on the edges for those who had it enabled (or would have done so).
ADP is a massive privacy improvement, but most customers aren't using it and were (and remain) vulnerable to spying.
This is an effective return to the status quo from before ADP was introduced in Dec. 2019.
And naturally, Apple won't leave this market.…
@JasonAnthonyGuy @vascorsd Naturally, under capitalism. Which is anything but natural.
@aral where did you move to?
@Squozen First Sweden, then Ireland. (Nowhere’s perfect. And the way things are going, it looks like we’re all going to have to make a stand wherever we are sooner or later.)
@aral oh, where in Ireland?
@Squozen Bray. You?
(Congrats on the citizenship, btw, just saw the posts.) :)
@aral thanks! We’re in Portarlington.