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SpamSandwich said:

LOL! If governments were run by angels, there would be no argument. That they are run by people who are no smarter or more capable than any of us should be evidence enough that they cannot be given complete autonomy and access to confidential personal communications and data.

The fact is that here in the UK our MP's are just ordinary people and as such have a very limited knowledge of IT.  Some of them can't cope with emails, Twitter etc without a secretary.  They are certainly not angels - only a few years ago most were caught out fiddling the taxpayer, and they are not the people who should be given any blank access to the people's information, they will use it for their own purposes.

Amber Rudd has no idea what she is talking about, she, like most cabinet members relies on civil servants to brief her and they still haven't grasped that end to end encryption means just that,  The press over here still think that Apple could have just given the FBI the content of the San Bernadino case phone, and that they have refused to help the government.

Incidentally, in the full interview, Rudd says that the UK need people who are  - exact quote - 

“The best people who understand the technology, who understand the necessary hashtags to stop this stuff even being put up, not just taking it down, but stop it going up in the first place, are going to be them. That’s why I’d like to have an industry-wide board set up where they do it themselves. They could do this, I want to make sure they do,”

You'd think Apple WhatsApp etc would just get some of these people who "understand the hashtags" and stop all this terrorism in the world 😂

Seriously, this is the sort of person who is running our country - and even worse the alternative is Jeremy Corbyn - Google him if you're not in the UK but please don't laugh out loud at us - they all make your Mr Trump look very good at his job.

Just to keep the conversation on topic  

My iPhone 6s has been shutting down with 50% battery - it suddenly goes to zero and won't restart. After about 20 minutes it will restart and carry on as normal.  It only seems to happen when I am outside in lower temperatures, so I don't think it's restricted to China -I am in the uk - nor does it seem to be a political stance against Mr Trump!

Unbelievable!  Switched on my MacBook on Firday after the leave vote and it worked, so did my Apple TV, iPhone and iPad.  went into town and the Apple shop is open - so far so good!