UK government demands Apple backdoor to encrypted cloud data: report

UK government officials have secretly ordered Apple to create a backdoor that will allow its authority to access the users to encrypted iCloud data.

Washington Post Said that the claim was issued in January UK Investigating Energy Act 2016Also known as the Snoppers Charter. Officials have not asked for the narrow access to specified Apple accounts, the report said that any user worldwide demanded the “blanket” access to the endloaded to the end -to -end files that were uploaded to the cloud.

According to the post, Apple will probably turn off his encrypted cloud storage offer, Advanced data protectionTo UK users. This access does not give the UK authorities backdoor access to the UK authorities encrypted in other countries, including the United States.

Apple did not immediately respond to the questions of TechCrunch but there is Alert Creating so -called backdoor for law enforcement will reveal users’ personal data to hackers.

TechCrunch contacted the UK home office for comments but did not get any response at the time of publication.