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   UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US (arstechnica.com)
I really sort of expected that by the time I reached my age that we'd have more policy makers that understood tech a little better. I feel like in the last say 25 or more years ... the needle hasn't moved.
I assumed they’d only have asked for it if they’d already OKed it with the US, and that it was probably part of a plan to give US access too via 5-eyes sharing.

Turns out it was not 4D chess after all…

Thank goodness for that - a UK citizen.
UK does not want to pay for US backdoor access?
tl,dr: "Vance argued that free speech and democracy were threatened by European elites."