Apple will no longer offer iCloud end-to-end encryption in the United Kingdom after the government requested a backdoor to access Apple customers' encrypted cloud data. Apple says that ADP continues to be available for customers worldwide, who can enable it to ensure that their encrypted iCloud data can only be decrypted on trusted devices. As Apple told BleepingComputer on Friday, the optional Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature introduced in December 2022 will no longer be available for new users in the U.K. starting today. This decision follows a secret order from the United Kingdom government demanding that Apple create a backdoor that would provide access to the unencrypted data of any Apple user worldwide. While Apple cannot disable ADP for current ADP users in the U.K., they will eventually be required to disable it to keep using their iCloud account using guidance provided by Apple over the coming weeks or days. We are gravely disappointed that the protections provided by ADP will not be available to our customers in the UK given the continuing rise of data breaches and other threats to customer privacy," the company told BleepingComputer. "ADP protects iCloud data with end-to-end encryption, which means the data can only be decrypted by the user who owns it, and only on their trusted devices.
This Cyber News was published on www.bleepingcomputer.com. Publication date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:40:26 +0000