Let’s talk about iMessage (again)

Apple admits giving governments access to thousands of iPhones and other devices

Apple's Transparency Report reveals a 9 per cent rise in the number of demands for customer data in 2018

Bill C-22’s Groundhog Day: Why the Government’s Dismissal of Signal, Apple and the U.S. Congress Concerns Runs Back the Disastrous Online News Act Playbook - Michael Geist

Secure messaging service Signal yesterday became the latest company to warn that Bill C-22, the lawful access bill, could force it to leave the Canadian market rather than comply with provisions it says would compromise its end-to-end encryption and create new cybersecurity risks. Signal vice-president Udbhav Tiwari told the Globe and Mail that the company “would rather pull out of the country than be compelled to compromise on the privacy promises we have made to our users.” The comments are part of a steady stream of similar warnings from Apple, Meta, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Cybersecurity Advisors Network, and the chairs of the U.S. House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs Committees. Despite growing concern, the government’s response has been to launch a misleading social media campaign and repeatedly insist that the experts and companies are mistaken.

Apple's Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the 'data industrial complex' | TechCrunch

Apple's CEO Tim Cook has joined the chorus of voices warning that data itself is being weaponized against people and societies -- arguing that the trade

Unauthorized access, personal data leaks surge in Japan | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

A series of cyberattacks have led to leaks of large amounts of personal data from companies across Japan. Experts say the misuse of AI may be contributing to the growing threat. As this new challenge emerges, how should companies, and society as a whole, respond?

Apple threat notifications and spyware: what everyone should know - Access Now

Since 2001, Apple has been warning its users when they may have been targeted by spyware, using email, iMessage, and banners in their accounts. But in

Chat Control & Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU.

After Snowden’s whistleblowing in 2013, large parts of the internet became encrypted, enabling private and secure communication. Not everyone has welcomed this change. Most notably, the FBI and other U.S. government agencies have fought what is often called the “crypto wars”, the war on encryption. In recent years, they have been joined by the European Commission. Under the slogan “what about the children,” they try to introduce total mass surveillance of all EU citizens — first through the proposed Chat Control legislation, and later via the Going Dark and ProtectEU initiatives. The goal is to legally mandate spy tools on every European smartphone and computer. The forces behind these efforts have turned out to be American tech companies and intelligence agencies.

The Sovereign Protocol War

How Facebook, Telegram and startups… may defend us and support the open web instead

What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit

The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort

Government Says Terabytes of Signal Chats are Central to the Case Against Minnesota 15 - UNICORN RIOT

The Minnesota 15 case is about conversations, thousands of pages of it, harvested from encrypted group chats on Signal and loaded into an Everlaw database for prosecutors to build conspiracy charges against Trump's political opponents.

Tim Cook: Privacy Is Worth Protecting | InformationWeek

Apple CEO Tim Cook leans on the Founding Fathers to suggest the company did the right thing when asked by the FBI to unlock a terrorist's iPhone. It's an issue that affects IT professionals who need to protect company data, as well as consumers and their personal information.

ChatGPT is winning the future — but what future is that?

The biggest thing in tech since the iPhone was basically an accident.

How to protect your phone and data privacy at the US border

With reports of people being turned away at airports over messages found on devices, here’s what to do to minimize risks

We Shouldn’t Wait Another Fifteen Years for a Conversation About

With high-profile hacks in the headlines and government officials trying to reopen a long-settled debate about encryption, information security has become a mainstream issue. But we feel that one

The Trump Administration Group Chat, Signal: The Coke of Secure Messaging, Transparency Versus Security

The Trump administration’s Signal gaffe raises fascinating questions about secure messaging and the trade-off inherent in transparency.