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Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch

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lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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Spanish police requested information from Apple, and encrypted services Proton and Wire, about a pro-Catalan independence activist.

By the way, the earlier posted article https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary

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    Proton and Wire didn’t share any decrypted ciphertexts, Wire shared a ProtonMail address and Proton an iCloud Address that they had set as a recovery method.

    Personal info like where they live came from Apple.

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      I know wire and proton are encrypted. Apple services certainly aren’t though.

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        They didn’t require any encrypted data. Apple has your name and payment details unencrypted, as they need them to charge you.

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        A lot of them are, actually

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        Most Apple services can be encrypted including iCloud. Basically email and calendaring are not covered.

        https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651#advanced

        If you set it up as “advanced” then only you hold the recovery keys.

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