Apple is removing its highest level data security tool from customers in
the UK after the government demanded access to user data protected wirth Apple's Advance Data Protection.

Earlier this month the UK government asked for the right to see the
data, which currently not even Apple can access.

Apple did not comment at the time but has consistently opposed creating
a "backdoor" in its encryption service, arguing that if it did so, it
would only be a matter of time before bad actors also found a way in.

As a result, Apple has decided it will no longer be possible to activate
ADP in the UK.

It means eventually not all UK customer data stored on iCloud - Apple's
cloud storage service - will be fully encrypted.

In a statement Apple said it was "gravely disappointed" that the
security feature would no longer be available to British customers.

"As we have said many times before, we have never built a backdoor or
master key to any of our products, and we never will," it continued.

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On 21 Feb 2025, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

Apple is removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK after the government demanded access to user data protected wirth Apple's Advance Data Protection.

The general lack of personal privacy and a subtle set-aside of most ideas of inalienable rights, pretty much sums up the UK approach to individualism.

In this way they are in alingment with most of Europe.

Something to deeply consider as you flesh out your retirment to England plans.

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