{"id":24462,"date":"2019-02-28T16:01:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T21:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=24462"},"modified":"2019-02-28T20:58:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T01:58:20","slug":"eff-calls-on-apple-to-let-users-encrypt-icloud-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/28\/eff-calls-on-apple-to-let-users-encrypt-icloud-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"EFF Calls on Apple to Let Users Encrypt iCloud Backups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2019\/02\/announcing-fix-it-already\">Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2019\/02\/28\/eff-user-encrypted-icloud-backups-apple\/\">MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2019\/02\/announcing-fix-it-already\">\n<p>Today we are announcing <a href=\"https:\/\/fixitalready.eff.org\/\">Fix It Already<\/a>, a new way to show companies we&rsquo;re serious about the big security and privacy issues they need to fix. We are demanding fixes for different issues from nine tech companies and platforms, targeting social media companies, operating systems, and enterprise platforms on issues ranging from encryption design to retention policies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fixitalready.eff.org\/apple\/#\/\">Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/fixitalready.eff.org\/apple\/#\/\">\n<p>Data on your Apple device is encrypted so that no one but you can access it, and that&rsquo;s great for user privacy. But when data is backed up to iCloud, it&rsquo;s encrypted so that Apple, and not just the user, can access it. That makes those backups vulnerable to government requests, third-party hacking, and disclosure by Apple employees. Apple should let users protect themselves and choose truly encrypted iCloud backups.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/imessage-end-to-end-encryption\/\">iMessage End-to-End Encryption<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/12\/apple-storing-russian-users-data-on-local-servers\/\">Apple Storing Russian Users&rsquo; Data on Local Servers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Frontier Foundation (via MacRumors): Today we are announcing Fix It Already, a new way to show companies we&rsquo;re serious about the big security and privacy issues they need to fix. We are demanding fixes for different issues from nine tech companies and platforms, targeting social media companies, operating systems, and enterprise platforms on issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-02-28T21:01:57Z","apple_news_api_id":"8371ab6b-6b04-4147-892d-86dd7bc2fad7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-03-01T01:58:25Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ag3Gra2sEQUeJLYbde8L61w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,146,16,31,1610,355],"class_list":["post-24462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-backup","tag-icloud","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-privacy"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24466,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24462\/revisions\/24466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}