VIDEO-Theresa May: Internet data will be recorded under new spy laws - live - Telegraph

Jimmy Wales has suggested that Apple should stop selling iPhones in the UK, if the government passes a new law that would prevent technology firms and service providers from using end-to-end encryption to protect private communications.

In a tweet, the Wikipedia founder, who is a long-term defender of privacy rights, described the Investigatory Powers Bill (also known as the Snooper's Charter) as "stupid", and implied that the industry should take a stand:

Proposals in the Investigatory Powers Bill, announced today by Theresa May, will place a legal requirement on communication providers to provide unencrypted communications to the police or spy agencies if requested through a warrant.

This means that companies such as Apple, Google and Microsoft will no longer be able to offer encryption so advanced that even they cannot decipher it when asked to do so.

iPhones use a messaging service called iMessage, which would fall under the provisions in the Bill. Apple currently says it could not give iMessage data to authorities even if it wanted to, because of the strong encryption it uses.

The company has already made this legal argument to authorities in the United States. In September, for example, Apple rebuffed a court order to hand over messages sent between two iPhones using iMessage, because its encryption system left it unable to comply.

However, the US Department of Justice claims that Apple should be required to unlock encrypted data, because iOS is “licensed, not sold” to customers.

Apple is not the only company to offer end-to-end encryption of messages. Facebook, WhatsApp, Google and many other communication providers also use the technology, which is considered a mainstay of online data protection.

Sophie Curtis has the full story.

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