Apple said Friday it will stop offering an advanced data security option for British users after the government reportedly demanded that the company provide backdoor access for any data those users have stored in the cloud.

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Security officials argue that encryption hinders criminal investigations, while tech firms defend it as essential to user privacy.

With the UK government bent on sideling end-to-end encryption, Apple has resorted to removing its prestigious cloud encryption feature.

Apple removes iCloud Advanced Data Protection in the UK after government demands access, raising privacy concerns.

Apple has publicly been pushing back against a UK order that demands it create encryption backdoors, and it has now formally appealed that order to the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal.

As noted by FT, the tribunal will “consider whether the UK’s notice to Apple was lawful and, if not, could order it to be quashed.” The tribunal could reportedly hear the ca

Apple has filed a legal appeal against a secret Home Office order to provide ‘back door’ access to its users encrypted data in a case that will test the limits of how far the government can lawfully go to access the public’s private messages and emails.

Apple is taking the UK government to court over efforts to force the company to weaken iCloud encryption. The case, filed under the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA), seeks to compel Apple to create a backdoor that would allow law enforcement access to user data, not just in the UK but potentially in other countries too.

Apple has reportedly taken the UK to task over its demand to be allowed access to encrypted iCloud files owned by iPhone users. The company previously refused to add a backdoor to allow encryption to be bypassed and subsequently removed an encryption feature from the UK entirely.