Apple Says It Will Exit The UK Market If Government Passes Update To Investigatory Powers Act::Apple fought the law and – contrary to the song lyrics – it won. Years later, Apple decided it would get ahead of the law enforcement curve by attempting to engage in client-side scanning of iPhone users’ content. That worked out less well for Apple, which (at least momentarily) decided making governments happy was more…

      • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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        1 year ago

        That’s going to last exactly as long as legislation. Apple was told to and then pushed out an update to set airdrop to automatically turn off after a few minutes, only for users in hong Kong because airdrop was used as a primary means of organizing and sending info on protests.

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          Yeah I don’t know about that, it rolled out globally a month later.