Apple boss Tim Cook clashes with US government over encryption

White House tech summit reportedly saw Apple's CEO call for a 'no backdoors' policy when it comes to communications encryption

Apple chief executive Tim Cook has challenged the US government to adopt a policy of "no backdoors" in its approach to the encryption technology used by his company and other technology firms.

Cook made his comments at a recent meeting between US administration officials and technology companies including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Twitter, Dropbox and Cloudflare as well as Apple.