The US director of national intelligence says the UK has withdrawn its controversial demand to access global Apple users’ data if required.
Tulsi Gabbard claimed in a post on X that the UK had decided to revoke its directive for the internet giant to offer a “back door” that would have “encroached on our civil liberties and enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens.”
As far as the BBC is aware, neither the US nor the UK governments have formally contacted Apple as of yet.
We refrain from speaking on operational issues, including confirming or denying our knowledge of such notices,” a spokesman for the UK government stated.
In order to address the most pressing concerns, such terrorism and child sexual abuse, as well as the part that rapidly evolving technology plays in facilitating these threats, we have long maintained cooperative security and intelligence agreements with the United States.
Apple received a formal notification from the UK in December requesting access to encrypted data from its users throughout the globe.
However, Apple itself is unable to access the data of users who have enabled Advanced Data Protection (ADP), the company’s most robust security feature that restricts access to users’ files. It would have needed to crack its own encryption techniques to accomplish this. It stated, “We have never created a master key or backdoor to any of our services or products, and we never will.
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