“Apple should stop selling its popular iPhone line in the UK if a new law banning fully encrypted communications is passed, the founder of Wikipedia has said,” Jon Stone reports for The Independent.
“Jimmy Wales, who set up the online encyclopaedia in 2001, described the draft Investigatory Powers Bill as ‘stupid,'” Stone reports. “‘I would like to see Apple refuse to sell iPhone in UK if government bans end-to-end encryption,’ he said on Twitter. ‘Does Parliament dare be that stupid?'”
“The proposed law, to be published in its full draft from on Wednesday by the Home Secretary Theresa May, will mandate internet and technology companies to hand over communications data on request. This means that encryption on communications would in theory have to be breakable by those firms in some way,” Stone reports. “Mr Wales is a long-standing campaigner for an open and free internet and has previously spoken out on issues regarding intellectual property reform and privacy.”
I would like to see Apple refuse to sell iPhone in UK if gov't bans end-to-end encryption. Does Parliament dare be that stupid?
— Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales) November 3, 2015
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MacDailyNews Take: Clearly, the Investigatory Powers Bill belongs in the loo as it is the product of some fools’ arse.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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