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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by gentleman11 on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @11:53AM (#32167545)
Most of my extended family is unaware that iCloud backups sends your words to apple, not to mention all the other things. There was no rough evaluation
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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by runako on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @11:57AM (#32167620)
(This is also about the encryption of the communication channel itself.)

I agree with you in general, but it is possible for this evaluation to be done by a simple read of e.g. the iOS marketing page. The Act proposes a regime where it is not possible for a chat participant to determine who holds the encryption keys for the chat. You may consider that better or worse or neither, but it is a significant change in the security posture for billions of deployed devices.

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