News Round-Up
15 April 2025
by Toby Young
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by Sallust
The UK Government is making itself a laughing stock in its use of Snoopers' Charter laws to end Apple's encrypted Advanced Data Protection privacy service. Fortunately, there are alternatives.
President Trump compared Keir Starmer's UK to Communist China after the Government ordered Apple to give it backdoor access to users' encrypted data. This isn't far-fetched, says Frederick Attenborough: it exposes us all.
China has been caught spying on America using 'backdoors' in Western technology that the U.S. Government mandated telecom companies to put there. It's time to close these self-imposed weaknesses, says Dr. R P.
Privacy – one of the most basic rights in any free society – is under threat from the Online Safety Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament. The central issue is the undermining of encryption.
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