Apple challenges UK government’s latest demand for iCloud backdoor: report

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Apple is challenging different ineligible request by the U.K. authorities to entree the encrypted information of its users successful the country, according to the Financial Times.

The institution reportedly filed a ailment with the U.K.’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal, a tribunal that hears cases related to authorities surveillance, aft the authorities past twelvemonth issued a “technical capableness notice”. The announcement is simply a concealed authorities ineligible bid for demanding entree to users’ data, adjacent if the information is encrypted.

For critics, this benignant of request is the equivalent of requesting a backdoor into Apple’s unreality backups that person Advanced Data Protection (ADP) switched on, which makes the information end-to-end encrypted and inaccessible to anyone different than the customer, including to Apple.

This caller situation comes a twelvemonth aft a akin combat betwixt Apple and the U.K. government. In aboriginal 2025, London issued a concealed order to Apple demanding entree to users’ encrypted iCloud backups, which was aboriginal dropped pursuing the involution of the Trump administration.

After the archetypal order, the institution reacted by removing the quality of U.K. users to usage ADP. Then, successful October, the U.K. issued a 2nd order, which Apple is present challenging.

Apple did not respond to TechCrunch’s petition for comment.

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