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Re:Apple's Best Option: Decentralize iCloud by mozball on Monday February 10, 2025 @04:03AM (#42998278)
According to WaPo, the secret order demands blanket access to cloud data from any user anywhere in the world : http://archive.today/79dA3
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Re:Apple's Best Option: Decentralize iCloud by nickslaughter02 on Monday February 10, 2025 @04:35AM (#42998553)
> from any user anywhere in the world

Is that even legal? At the very least, doesn't it break some EU privacy laws?

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Re:Apple's Best Option: Decentralize iCloud by stephen_g on Monday February 10, 2025 @08:17AM (#42999860)
Why would the UK Government care about that? They’re not bound by the EU’s laws. They’re trying to force Apple to secretly break the EU and other countries’ laws, and don’t care as long as they get what they want…
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Re:Apple's Best Option: Decentralize iCloud by swiftcoder on Monday February 10, 2025 @05:22AM (#42998828)
Post-Brexit, I imagine that's a feature of the request, not a bug, at least from the UK's standpoint
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