TECH giant Apple dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices on iCloud after the FBI complained that the move would harm its investigations.
Full encryption would protect user data by converting it into code, making it impossible to access without a password.
The reversal took place two years ago but was discovered only this week by the Reuters news agency.
In the second and final part of his article MIKE SCOTT posits that if we don’t control AI while we’ve got the chance, we could be signing the death warrant for our children and grandchildren
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
LOUISA BULL traces how derecognition, outsourcing and digitalisation reshaped the industry, weakened collective bargaining and created today’s precarious media workforce
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS


