Apple Disabled ICLOUD Function Function in the UK
Apple users in the UK can no longer have access to one of the most powerful data protection tools such as first reported by BloombergS The Function, Advanced Protection of Data (ADP), allows iPhone users to add optional end -to -end encryption to various iCloud data. This move comes against the background of a continued dispute between Apple and the United Kingdom over a Government order This will require the company to build a reverse to allow British security staff to have access to encrypted data from users worldwide.
"ADP protects iCloud -to -end encryption data, which means that data can only be decrypted by the user who owns it and only on their reliable devices," Apple told Engadget. "We are seriously disappointed that the protection provided by ADP will not be available to our UK customers, given the continuous increase in data disorders and other customer confidentiality threats."
"Apple can no longer offer advanced data protection (ADP) in the United Kingdom of New Users," Notice explains when users go to activate the feature of their iPhone, iPad or Mac after Apple’s decision. If you live in the United Kingdom and have ADP activated, you will need to manually disable encryption to save your iCloud account. Apple told Engadget It will provide customers with a grace period to comply with, although the company has not yet said how long it will give. The company added that it would share additional guidance in the future. Due to the nature of end -to -end encryption, Apple cannot automatically deactivate ADP on behalf of its users.
Apple’s decision to disable ADP in the UK does not mean that the company removes encryption from end to many of the other services it offers in the country. As for Imessage, PasswordsHealth data and others, they are still protected by end -to -end encryption.
"Improving cloud-to-end cloud storage security is more successful than ever," said Apple. "Apple remains committed to offering our users the highest level of security for their personal data and we hope that we will be able to do so in the future in the United Kingdom. As we have said many times, we have never built a rear or the main key to any of our products or services and will never do it."
The news of the UK reversing request broke last week when The Washington Post report that civil servants have issued a "Technical capacity" of the company in accordance with the Law on Investigative Powers of the Country. Last yearThe UK Government made changes to the law to "Make sure that intelligence services and law enforcement have the powers they need to keep up with a number of developing threats of terrorists, hostile state participants, abusers of children and criminal gangs." The order is reported to require Apple to enable security staff to view all the fully encrypted materials of the user whenever the government wants and anywhere.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/apple-disbles-iclouds-advanced-data-pottion-feature-the-uk-173016447.html?src=
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