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At Apple’s secretive Global Police Summit at its Cupertino headquarters, cops from seven countries learned how to use a host of Apple products like the iPhone, Vision Pro and CarPlay for surveillance and policing work.

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[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That key is not for locally encrypted data, locked devices or e2ee data.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec973254c5f/web

If you turn this on, Apple can’t not decrypt anything you have stored in the cloud with that key.