techUK told The Register this week: "As the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill receives Royal Assent, we are disappointed that the government did not address the widespread concerns about its potential negative impacts.
"We remain concerned that these reforms will weaken privacy protections, expand surveillance powers, hinder security innovation, and risk exacerbating international conflicts of law without sufficient safeguards.
Apple, for example – a company that famously refused to bend even to the FBI after they wanted to crack open the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone, said it would consider pulling iMessage and FaceTime from the UK over fears they would be forced to weaken security.
The company branded the IPB’s rule “an unprecedented overreach by the government,” adding it believes the changes are an “attempt to secretly veto new user protections globally, preventing us from ever offering them to customers.”
Abigail Burke, platform power program manager at the Open Rights Group, previously told The Register, before the IPB was debated in parliament, that the proposals amounted to an “attack on technology.”
The Online Safety Bill was also passed last year after a rocky process that garnered equally loud concerns from privacy campaigners about a so-called “spy clause” that aimed to capture encrypted private messages.
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techUK told The Register this week: "As the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill receives Royal Assent, we are disappointed that the government did not address the widespread concerns about its potential negative impacts.
"We remain concerned that these reforms will weaken privacy protections, expand surveillance powers, hinder security innovation, and risk exacerbating international conflicts of law without sufficient safeguards.
Apple, for example – a company that famously refused to bend even to the FBI after they wanted to crack open the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone, said it would consider pulling iMessage and FaceTime from the UK over fears they would be forced to weaken security.
The company branded the IPB’s rule “an unprecedented overreach by the government,” adding it believes the changes are an “attempt to secretly veto new user protections globally, preventing us from ever offering them to customers.”
Abigail Burke, platform power program manager at the Open Rights Group, previously told The Register, before the IPB was debated in parliament, that the proposals amounted to an “attack on technology.”
The Online Safety Bill was also passed last year after a rocky process that garnered equally loud concerns from privacy campaigners about a so-called “spy clause” that aimed to capture encrypted private messages.
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