As a Brit writing for a mainly U.S.-based audience, I tend to have mixed feelings when my homeland makes an appearance in the tech media. References to Tim Berners-Lee or ARM processors are one thing, but all too often it’s unchecked surveillance or misguided AI hype. There’s more to the U.K. than Ed Sheeran and Downton Abbey, but not all of it is good.
Last week, I found myself not just reading tech articles about Britain but actually writing one when sources claimed that Keir Starmer’s government had given up on its bid to break Apple’s iCloud encryption. Back in January, the Home Office issued a “technical capability notice” requiring access to content uploaded to the cloud by any of the company’s customers throughout the world. But Apple said no, and it looks increasingly like that will be that.
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