Apple Removes Advanced Data Protection For UK Users Following Government Demands For Backdoor Access To Encrypted iCloud Data

OSTN Staff

Apple Pulls ADP feature in UK

Apple has been increasingly focused on protecting user data and privacy, which seems to be one of the company’s core values. To ensure that users are able to get end-to-end encryption (E2EE) on its iCloud data, it introduced a security feature called Advanced Data Protection (ADP) that is meant to allow only users to access their data and not even the company can decrypt it. The optional feature is available in many countries but did not sit well with the UK government, and the tech giant is said to be now taking it down in the UK amidst the government’s […]

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