Uk Government Tries Again To Access Encrypted Apple Customer Data: Report

The U.K. authorities is still trying to summation entree to encrypted iCloud data, according to nan Financial Times aft British officials allegedly revenge a caller concealed bid demanding Apple build a backdoor 

On Wednesday, nan British newspaper reported that nan U.K. Home Office sent an bid to Apple earlier successful September requesting that nan tech elephantine creates a strategy to fto officials entree encrypted unreality backups of British citizens.  

Privacy activists person warned that complying pinch specified an bid would beryllium a mistake, and thing that would effect nan privateness of users worldwide. 

Spokespeople for Apple and nan U.K. Home Office did not respond to TechCrunch’s petition for comment. 

This is nan 2nd clip that nan U.K. authorities sent Apple what is called a “technical capacity notice,” aft the U.K. government’s first bid issued successful January. At that time, nan U.K. Home Office was seeking entree to cloud-stored backups of immoderate Apple personification relationship worldwide that was protected by Advanced Data Protection (ADP), an opt-in characteristic that allows users to make their iCloud backups end-to-end encrypted truthful that not moreover Apple tin entree nan data. 

That first order, made nether the U.K.’s Investigatory Powers Act 2016, besides known by critics arsenic nan “Snoopers’ Charter,” forced Apple to move disconnected nan expertise to enroll successful ADP for caller users successful nan U.K. and yet to disable it for existing users arsenic well.  

“As we person said galore times before, we person ne'er built a backmost doorway aliases maestro cardinal to immoderate of our products aliases services and we ne'er will,” Apple said astatine nan time.  

That erstwhile effort by nan U.K. authorities apparently failed, erstwhile U.S. National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard announced that nan British authorities had dropped nan petition aft negotiations pinch nan Trump administration.  

Apple reportedly challenged nan ineligible demand successful court, which ruled that nan process should not beryllium held successful secret.