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Apple is likely to stop providing its encrypted cloud service to U.K. users

I currently use Telegram for my friends and family, but have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the UK Government is either reaching agreement for backdoors with messaging services, or is trying its hardest to.

I’m also on Element/Matrix. Before I try to get my contacts to join me on there, should I be aware of any privacy issues or is that a good place to head?

  • endofline@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Yes, the child safety is very necessary. The simplest solution for simplex would be simply the “parental control” like restricting the contacts or allowed groups by checking by the phone number or imei with no client side scanning… However, EU is to force such client side scanning.

    As simplex is open source, clones could show up with no restrictions but this can be prevented with the blocks on the google play (parental control) and so on. Of course, you can never solve the issue with completely new phone with the sim card bought on some “homeless” person but there is no bulletproof solutions.

    It’s worrying trend that EU now chooses the worst solutions for quite long time