TECH - Tech Giants Comprising Apple Google Microsoft And Others Take A Stand Against UK Surveillance Proposal | Benzinga
techUK, a UK-based trade group comprising Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Google, and Microsoft, among others, has expressed its opposition to the proposed surveillance laws in the UK, citing potential threats to data security and privacy.
What Happened: An open letter to the British government was drafted by the techUK group, which includes Apple among its key members, as reported by 9to5Mac.
Apart from Apple, the techUK group counts Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT), Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBE), Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and others as its members.
The trade group has requested an immediate meeting to discuss the proposed Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) changes. These changes would force technology companies to disable security features like end-to-end encryption without informing the consumers.
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