Topic: Apple pulls data protection tool

[Skhilled (OP)]

Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row.

Apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK, after the government demanded access to user data.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo

[Ken]

Governments of the world have a nasty habit of demanding access to our data, and they should stop... but, they will not.

[Skhilled (OP)]

Well, on the flip side, we all know that Apple and other big tech are selling/data brokering our private info. Makes me wonder if Apple doesn't want to do it either because the government isn't going to pay for it OR if they are afraid that the government might find something that they don't want them to find.

The article doesn't state why the government wants the data and neither side is giving up much info.