According to the Financial Times, the UK government is attempting to gain access to encrypted iCloud data, according to the Financial Times, which allegedly submitted a new secret order requesting the construction of Apple.
On Wednesday, a British newspaper reported that the Home Office had sent an order to Apple in the beginning of September, requesting that the tech giant create a system to allow access to encrypted cloud backups of British citizens.
Privacy activists warn that compliance with such orders is a mistake, and that anything that affects the privacy of users around the world is a mistake.
When contacted by email, Apple spokesman Julien Trosdorf refused to comment on the reported presence, but said the company could not provide “ADP” which could not provide Advanced Data Protection (ADP).
A UK Home Office spokesman did not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment.
This is the second time the UK government has sent what it called a “technical capability notification” to Apple after it was issued in January. At the time, the UK Department of Home Affairs wanted access to cloud-retained backups of Apple user accounts around the world protected by ADP.
Its first order, created under the UK Research Power Act 2016, also known by critics as “Snoopers Charter,” forced Apple to turn off the ability of new UK users to register with ADP, and ultimately disable it for existing users as well.
“As I said many times before, we have never built a backdoor or a master key for our products or services.
Previous efforts by the UK government seem to have been clearly unsuccessful when US National Intelligence Director Tarsi Gabbard announced that the UK government had withdrawn its demands after negotiations with the Trump administration.
Apple reportedly challenged the court’s legal demands, which ruled that the process should not be kept secret.
This story has been updated to include comments from an Apple spokesman.
