TL;DR: Apple has removed the Advanced Data Protection option for iCloud users in the UK following a government mandate to implement backdoors. Data conscious iOS users across the UK just lost the ...

Thanks to the UK government, Apple can no longer offer new users in the UK the ability to enable Advanced Data Protection. As of 10 a.m. (ET) today, Apple is no longer offering new users in the UK the ...

Apple Inc. has disabled Advanced Data Protection for U.K. users following a reported request from the government to build a backdoor into the feature. The company made the encryption tool inaccessible ...

Apple Breaks Silence on UK Probe, Removes Data Protection Tool From UK Users Your email has been sent The U.K. government demanded a backdoor into Apple’s Advanced Data Protection. In response to a ...

Apple has long said that it has "never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products or services and we never will." Showing its commitment to that policy, Apple has decided to disable its ...

We previously outlined what ADP is, and why it matters, but the executive summary is that it extends end-to-end encryption to almost all your iCloud data. That means that Apple has no access, and ...

Apple has withdrawn its Advanced Data Protection iCloud feature from the United Kingdom following government demands for backdoor access to encrypted user data, according to Bloomberg. The move comes ...

Apple today announced that it has removed its Advanced Data Protection feature in the UK. The decision comes after the UK government ordered Apple to build a worldwide backdoor into iCloud encryption.

Earlier this month, news broke that Apple had been served an order from the U.K. government demanding extraordinary access to its customers’ cloud data. The order, which was issued secretly and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Birch is a London-based advisor on digital financial services. Financial services rest on the twin, but interrelated, ...

The UK Government has dropped its demand for Apple to access users’ data amid a privacy and encryption row, according to the US director of national intelligence. Tulsi Gabbard posted on X that the UK ...

A few weeks after the UK government demanded Apple to create a backdoor on users' encrypted iCloud accounts to retrieve the content any Apple user has uploaded to the cloud, Apple decided to pull out ...