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by mozball 492 days ago
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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nickslaughter02 492 days ago
> 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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stephen_g 492 days ago
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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nickslaughter02 492 days ago
Wouldn't that warrant a reaction from the EU then? I haven't seen any.
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swiftcoder 492 days ago
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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