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Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
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Polling finds two-thirds don't trust this government, or any future one, with access to their encrypted chats.
Key facts
- New polling commissioned by the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) found that 93 percent of British adults believe they have a right to private conversations online, while 89 percent think
- Public First did the asking, polling 2,000 British adults for CDT in April and weighting the results to reflect the wider population
- That fight became particularly public when Apple withdrew Advanced Data Protection from UK users after receiving a secret Technical Capability Notice (TCN) under the Investigatory Powers Act
- Nor were respondents particularly sold on sacrificing security for law enforcement
Summary
Security Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website. Security Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia. Personal tech On Call: Exec couldn’t identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call. Brits have delivered a fairly unambiguous verdict on giving the government access to their encrypted messages: no, thanks.