📰 Reboot's News Round-Up - March 2026 📰
Read this first story twice!
🇬🇧🍏The UK secretly ordered Apple to build a backdoor into iCloud for every user worldwide
UK security officials secretly ordered Apple to build a backdoor into iCloud that would allow them to decrypt any user’s data, anywhere in the world. Not just suspected criminals, not just UK citizens. Everyone.
🛂 Apple Rolls Out Age Verification to UK iPhone users
If you use an iPhone in the UK, from version iOS 26.4, it will demand you to verify your age. Refuse and you essentially freeze your phone in time, unable to install apps, purchase new ones or make in-app purchases.
🌍Forty Two Countries Worldwide Have Introduced Social Media bans/Age Verification🚫
This is not a social media ban for under 16s this is MASS harvesting of EVERYONE'S biometric ID.
📰 Ditching Big Tech, aka ''deGoogling'' Enters the Zeitgeist
The Guardian's piece on finding alternatives to big tech doesn't go far enough, but it's a start.
❌Mullvad VPN Ads Being Censored in the UK
Expect this to the step one on the road to attempted VPN banning.
Luckily, you can watch every ad on their website here.
📰Colorado and California introduce bills to age verify operating systems
Clearly a law not based on any tech knowledge, it supposedly affects Linux too but try getting the thousands of different versions of an open-source operating system to agree to this! By the way, Open source means anyone can alter the code and remove offending software/features.
👮♂️Russia's FSB Charges Telegram Founder Pavel Durov with Aiding Terrorism
Telegram use is the target. Every new smartphone in Russia comes pre-installed with MAX, a state built messaging app with no privacy and legally required integration with the FSB surveillance infrastructure.