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i'm confused by this - did they or didn't they make UK user data less secure and private?

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The good thing is govts never abuse their authority so this seems fine :)

I like Proton and recommend everyone switch over if they are inclined to find an alternative to iCloud 

They're clear about the implications of law enforcement requests, everything has to go via the Swiss authorities and Switzerland has extremely watertight data privacy laws—plus data is encrypted so they likely can't hand it over anyway even if compelled

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The good thing is govts never abuse their authority so this seems fine :)

I like Proton and recommend everyone switch over if they are inclined to find an alternative to iCloud 

They're clear about the implications of law enforcement requests, everything has to go via the Swiss authorities and Switzerland has extremely watertight data privacy laws—plus data is encrypted so they likely can't hand it over anyway even if compelled https://proton.me/legal/law-enforcement

What's changed is they have removed the ability for apple users to be the only holder of the private key that is used to access the users encrypted cloud files. Previously when this feature was activated this key was unknown to apple and not stored on apple servers and only stored in the user's device. With this latest change the key can now only be stored on apple servers meaning the UK government can now use court orders to make apple provide the key to them, whereas before they would have needed to coerce the user into providing the key.

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So they removed encryption but also said they'll never build a backdoor, but then effectively built a backdoor...