UK Government Issues New Order to Access iCloud User Data

The UK authorities has issued a caller petition for Apple to supply entree to encrypted iCloud idiosyncratic data, the Financial Times reports.



The study reveals that, successful aboriginal September, the UK Home Office demanded that Apple creates a mode for officials to entree encrypted ‌iCloud‌ backups. Unlike its erstwhile order, the latest petition focuses connected the ‌iCloud‌ information of British citizens specifically. The request is designed to assistance instrumentality enforcement with investigations into coercion and kid intersexual abuse.

The Home Office's erstwhile petition from January sought entree to encrypted idiosyncratic information worldwide, which triggered a diplomatic clash betwixt the UK and U.S. governments. The Trump medication pressured the UK to discard the bid and, successful August, manager of nationalist quality Tulsi Gabbard said that the UK had "agreed to drop" its demand, astatine slightest with regards to the encrypted information of American citizens.

In February, Apple withdrew ‌iCloud‌'s Advanced Data Protection diagnostic successful the UK and raised nationalist objections to the request. It besides registered a ailment with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal and supported a ineligible situation from the run radical Privacy International and Liberty.

Questions stay astir whether the Trump medication has relaxed its presumption of the issue, and whether gathering a backdoor into encrypted ‌iCloud‌ information for the British authorities would jeopardize the information of planetary idiosyncratic data.
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