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[–] mount_snowden@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

They could just make that illegal too. ISPs in the UK are legally compelled to store all of their customers' internet activity for at least a year. I also found it interesting that there's been a minor scandal over the Home Office asking Apple to backdoor their end-to-end encryption, but no such scandal over the encryption which Apple provides by default on iCloud - I think it's almost certain that Apple gave up the keys to the UK (or someone in five eyes) quietly, and that the only reason they withdrew the end-to-end version from the UK is that the Home Office's request for a backdoor was leaked to the Washington Post.

All in all, the only person you can trust to encrypt your data is you.