Police State UK

The UK government has forced Apple to remove encryption feature from British customers phones. More of the same from the UK police state. www.watchdogonwallstreet.com

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
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and the impact it we'll have on everyday Americans author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst and trader Chris Markowski.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
I guess the UK they don't want to be outdone
by the Germans and their police state, their little stase
thing they got going on, and they're doing the same thing.
They wanted to force Apple. We talked about this here
on the program, to basically give the British State the key,
the key to the Kingdom of Apple, that's right, to

(00:38):
have them build a backdoor in essence allowing them into
anyone's phone for any reason. Apple said, no fricking way,
we would never ever allow that. Apple has advanced data protection.

(00:58):
It's end to end and encryption, meaning that nobody can
access your information unless you can only do it from
your device. Well, UK threatened Apple, and Apple said, okay, fine,
Note we're not going to give you a key, We're
just going to shut off the encryption service for any

(01:21):
of the users in the UK. So they're basically given in.
But again the UK government's none too happy about this
because they're going to have to deal with their citizens
complaining that they can't encrypt any of their data and
their messages anymore. When it goes back and forth from
the iCloud, this is what it says on the phones.

(01:42):
Apple can no longer offer advanced data protection in the
United Kingdom to new users, and it's telling people that
are existing users that users are going to have to
shut off encryption or they're not going to be able
to use the I cloud. Again, this is the UK,
this is Europe. This is the direction that they've been

(02:05):
heading in for some time. Very much a police state mentality. Again,
you can watch the videos over the course of the weekend.
You know, some grandmother there in the UK complaining about
the Labor department online and getting a visit from the police. Again,
it's difficult for us to get our arms around with

(02:26):
these things are actually occurring in countries, certain countries in
Europe right now. I applaud Apple. I applaud Apple in
their decision and saying hey, you know again, they didn't
want to shut everybody down. They just said, okay, okay,
your government wants to spy on you. There's nothing that

(02:46):
we can do about that. Quite Frankly, they could spy
on you again. You're gonna have. In essence, you guys
are gonna have to make better choices in the people
that represent you. Watch Dog and Wall Street dot Com