Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
Apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK, after the government demanded access to user data.
Apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK, after the government demanded access to user data.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.
Now the tech giant has decided it will no longer be possible to activate ADP in the UK.Data with standard encryption is accessible by Apple and shareable with law enforcement, if they have a warrant.The Home Office "We do not comment on operational matters, including for example confirming or denying the existence of any such notices."
In a statement Apple said it was "gravely disappointed" that the security feature would no longer be available to British customers. All the UK government has achieved is to weaken online security and privacy for UK based users," he told the adding it was "naïve" of the UK to "think they could tell a US technology company what to do globally".Online privacy expert Caro Robson said she believed it was "unprecedented" for a company "simply to withdraw a product rather than cooperate with a government
