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Apple's Best Option: Decentralize iCloud
What can Apple do in the face of a UK order to weaken encryption worldwide? Decentralize iCloud, to start.
As has been widely reported, the government of the United Kingdom has secretly ordered Apple to build a back door into iCloud to allow ‘blanket capability to view fully encrypted material.’ So far, every democratic country around the world has refrained from making such an order; for example, Australia’s widely debated legislation that mirrors the UK “Snooper’s Charter” has an explicit provision to disallow “systemic weakening” of encryption like we see here. CSAM scanning will just be the start: once access to that much data is available, it’s open season for everything from Lèse-majesté to punishing activists and protesters to policing sexual orientation, abortion, and other socially motivated laws.
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