Apple Inc. Removing its most advanced encrypted security facility for cloud data in the UK, a surprising development that orders the government to create a backdoor to access user data.
The company said on Friday that advanced data security, an alternative feature that adds end-to-end encryption to a detailed classification of user data, is no longer available in the UK for new users. Technology provided an additional layer of security to icloud data storage, device backup, web bookmark, voice memo, notes, photos, reminders and text messages backup.
The company said in a statement, “We are severely disappointed that the security provided by ADP will not be available to our customers in Britain, which is a continuous increase of data violations and other dangers for customer privacy,” a In a statement in the statement, he said. “ADP protects the iCloud data with end-to-end encryption, which means that the data can only be dec
Two weeks after media outlets, including Bloomberg News, comes unprecedented steps, stating that the UK government ordered Apple to build a back door in customer data globally.
Without ADP, the UK government has an easy time to request user data – a potentially dangerous landscape for customers in the country. This step also threatens to set an example that encourages other countries to push Apple to reduce security.
A representative of the UK Home Office said it does not comment on operational matters, which includes “confirmation or denying the existence of any such notice.”
Apple first called a bill from the UK Parliament, seeking access to the user data “unprecedented overache by the government.” At that time, the company said that “UK can secretly try to vetoos safety globally that prevents us from introducing customers.”
Customers using ADP will need to manually disable it during the unspecified grace period to keep their iCloud accounts. The company said it would issue additional guidance to the future affected users and that they do not have the ability to disable it automatically.
Steps to pull your encryption facility – instead of complying and construction of a back door – is a clear rebuke of the government’s order.
“As we have said many times before, we have never created a backdoor or master key for any of our products or services and we will never,” Apple said on Friday.
“It is more important to increase the security of cloud storage with end-to-end encryption” The company said, saying that it is committed to offer our users to offer the highest level security for their personal data. And hope that we will be able to do so in the future in the United Kingdom. ,
Users who try to enable advanced data security will receive a message on their iPhone, iPad or Mac that says “Apple cannot provide new users advanced data security (ADP) to new users in the United Kingdom. ” Bloomberg News published a guide to enable this feature, which is available globally elsewhere.
Elimination of advanced data security in the UK will not remove the end-to-end encryption provided by default for many other apple features, including IMESSAGE, FACETIME, password management and health data. Some industries monitor the approval that the Apple order can fully pull its services from the UK in the light of the order, but the removal of alternative additional security is the company’s agreement – at least for now.
Apple has a history of making regional changes to offer its products in those markets. For example, iCloud in China is powered by a local provider, and it is working with Alibaba Group Holding Limited on a material filtering system to offer its AI features in the region. At the same time, it pushed privacy as a guiding principle and fought the US government’s fight almost a decade ago when it asked the company to build a backward in the iPhone data.
As part of Apple’s own order, UK reported it to access global user data, Bloomberg News. The mandate ordered Apple to provide access under the UK’s discovered powers Act, a law that authorities to force companies to remove encryption under the “technical capacity notice”. The government also makes companies illegal to tell that the government has given such an order.
“Whatever we do in Apple to protect our users’ privacy and their data safety, the company is very heartbroken,” the company said in response to the 2023 bill from the UK Parliament that the user demanded access to data.
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