Apple and Other Browser Makers Ban Kazakhstan HTTPS Certificate Used to Surveil Citizens

Apple has teamed up with Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla to block a web browser root certificate that was being used by the Kazakhstan government to surveil its citizens.The certificate allowed authorities to monitor people's online activity by intercepting and decrypting HTTPS traffic from residents in Nur-Sultan, the capital city of Kazakhstan.
Local ISPs were required to block foreign websites including Google and Twitter, unless users had the certificate installed, but Apple and the other bro