Per the story:

The UK government has issued an order to Apple telling it to allow officials full access to any
iCloud content belonging to any user across the globe.

Story:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/02/07/uk-secretly-orders-apple-to-let-it-spy-on-iphone-users-worldwide



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Re: apple ordered to allow officials to spy..
By: Ogg to All on Sun Feb 09 2025 02:23 pm

The UK government has issued an order to Apple telling it to allow officials full access to any
iCloud content belonging to any user across the globe.

Story:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/02/07/uk-secretly-orders-apple-to-let -it-s py-on-iphone-users-worldwide

I think one confusing thing about that article is that the headline and parts of the article talk about spying on iPhone users, and that they want a back door into iOS, though the article also mentions they want to access iCloud content - I thought iCloud was also accessible on Mac desktops and laptops, not just iPhones?

Nightfox
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Hello Nightfox!

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/02/07/uk-secretly-orders-apple-to-l
et-it-s py-on-iphone-users-worldwide

I think one confusing thing about that article is that the
headline and parts of the article talk about spying on
iPhone users, and that they want a back door into iOS,
though the article also mentions they want to access iCloud
content - I thought iCloud was also accessible on Mac
desktops and laptops, not just iPhones?

I think only that particular headline is misleading.

The story has broken across various news agencies now. The
main issue is access to iCloud, to that means the directive is
not limited to just phone users.

This particular anti-privacy issue needs to die.

If criminals don't use iCloud, they'll use something else.

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Re: apple ordered to allow officials to spy..
By: Nightfox to Ogg on Sun Feb 09 2025 03:54 pm

I think one confusing thing about that article is that the headline and parts of the article talk about spying on iPhone users, and that they want a back door into iOS, though the article also mentions they want to access iCloud content - I thought iCloud was also accessible on Mac desktops and laptops, not just iPhones?

As far as I know, iCloud gets most of its activity from iphone users, and overwelmingly so. If I were writing a clickbaity headline then mixing iCloud and iphones together makes sense because that is a connection the audience will intuitively get.


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Re: apple ordered to allow officials to spy..
By: Arelor to Nightfox on Fri Feb 14 2025 09:13 pm

I think one confusing thing about that article is that the headline and
parts of the article talk about spying on iPhone users, and that they want

As far as I know, iCloud gets most of its activity from iphone users, and overwelmingly so. If I were writing a clickbaity headline then mixing iCloud and iphones together makes sense because that is a connection the audience will intuitively get.

It could just say something like "iCloud users" and I think that would be perfectly accurate.

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