Apple has stopped offering its end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), to new users in the UK, and will require existing users to disable the feature in the future.
This comes after reports that UK security services demanded Apple grant them a backdoor to access worldwide users' encrypted backups.
U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts (Washington Post) ($)
Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud, people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post.
It has no known precedent in major democracies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk/
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