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Oliver Haslam

Vital iPhone security updates could be blocked by proposed UK surveillance rules

Updating your software on iPhone

Owners of Apple's iPhones take it for granted that they will receive important security updates as and when they are required, but that might not be the case in the UK for much longer.

Proposed changes to the U.K.'s Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA) could see Apple prevented from releasing certain security updates because they will interfere with the government's surveillance, it's reported.

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