Apple in the UK pulled the plug on its top -level data tool, and it felt that customers encryption in the UK stored in its cloud storage, iCloud, ended.
This step follows a series between the US technology company and the United Kingdom government, which has been asked to assign access to encrypted data stored by Apple users around the world in its cloud service – data that Apple could not even access.
Such data that customers in the UK may now be approached by Apple to enforce the right in the UK if they are orders.
The United Kingdom’s home office reportedly demanded demand under the Act on Investigation Power (IPA), which compiles the organization to provide information to the coercive bodies.
The home office has not publicly confirmed that it has filed such an application, before: “We will not avoid operational matters, including, for example, conflict or rejecting the existence of such announcements.
Advanced data protection Apples, external (ADP), ensures that only the holders of the kidnapping can view items such as photos or documents that have stored online using end-to-end encryption.
Apple, who says he considers privacy as human rights of the foundation, said it was “really disappointed” that ADP has not been for British customers for a long time.
He added, “As we have said many times, we have never built a backdoor or the main key to any of our products and we will never be.”
Nick France, the CTO CTO Sectigo Web Security Company, said that the amendment to the Act on Investigation Powers with its pressure to encrypt backdoors and the ability to grant or not, increases the alarm bells in the technological sector.
“It is a double sword that prevents innovation and competitiveness and at the same time weakens safety,” he explained.
“Companies are worried about loss of consumer and business trust, potential talents management and opportunities to regulate friendly privacy. This creates a cooling effect on innovation because companies weigh the risks of reduced trust and security against the potential benefits of cooperation with the government. Finally, the change may achieve the opposite of its set purposes, threatening national security and economic growth in an effort to increase the ability to supervise.
Alan Woodward, a computer security professor at the University of Surrey, described him as an act of self -harm by the United Kingdom government and added that he considered it a very disappointed development.
He said, “The government has achieved everything that for users based in the UK weakens security and privacy. It was naive to think that the American technology company could say worldwide.
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