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Apple warns proposed UK law will affect software updates around the world | Apple may leave the UK if required to provide advance notice of product updates.

Apple may leave the UK if required to provide advance notice of product updates.

Apple is "deeply concerned" that proposed changes to a United Kingdom law could give the UK government unprecedented power to "secretly veto" privacy and security updates to its products and services, the tech giant said in a statement provided to Ars. Advertisement Ahead of that debate, Apple described the amendments on Monday as "an unprecedented overreach by the government" that "if enacted" could allow the UK to "attempt to secretly veto new user protections globally, preventing us from ever offering them to customers." The proposed changes, Apple said, "would suppress innovation, stifle commerce, and—when combined with purported extraterritorial application—make the Home Office the de facto global arbiter of what level of data security and encryption are permissible."

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