Apple Pulls End-to-End Encryption From UK Rather Than Provide Government a Backdoor
Mykl writes:
Following on from an earlier SoylentNews story that explained how the UK wanted Apple to create a global security backdoor for them, The Register reports that Apple have instead turned off their end-to-end ADP encryption service for all UK users.
"Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP) in the United Kingdom to new users and current UK users will eventually need to disable this security feature," Apple said.
"We are gravely disappointed that the protections provided by ADP will not be available to our customers in the UK given the continuing rise of data breaches and other threats to customer privacy," Apple said. "Enhancing the security of cloud storage with end-to-end encryption is more urgent than ever before."
The article explains that a few Apple services will still remain end-to-end encrypted (presumably those outside of the scope of the UK's request?). For now though it will be interesting to see whether the UK's Security services maintain their demand and keep all of their citizens unsafe or whether they'll back down.
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