In the face of an unprecedented secret demand by the government of the United Kingdom to provide backdoor access to all iCloud data worldwide, Apple stood firm. Instead, the company disabled UK ...

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 ...

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is removing its advanced, end-to-end encrypted security feature for cloud data in the U.K. after it was ordered by the government to create a so-called 'back door' to access user ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

In a world in which privacy is a hot-button issue, we might have expected Brits to be outraged that their government was responsible for Apple withdrawing Advanced Data Protection from the UK. In ...

Why is Apple Taking Legal Action Against UK’s Government? Your email has been sent Apple told TechRepublic it is “gravely disappointed” to remove Advanced Data Protection in the U.K., as it fights ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...