The Dangers Lurking in the U.K.’s Plan for Electronic Eavesdropping (Susan Landau, Lawfare)

On Feb. 7, the Washington Post reported that U.K. security officials demanded that Apple provide access to encrypted iCloud material regardless of the data’s location. This technical capability notice requires that Apple be able to: provide and maintain the capability to—
(a) disclose the content of communications or secondary data in an intelligible form where reasonably practicable; (b) remove electronic protection applied by or on behalf of the telecommunications operator to the communications or data where reasonably practicable.

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