British government secretly ordered Apple to create a worldwide iCloud backdoor

It is reported that the British government secretly ordered Apple to create a security bacder for all the content, loaded with iCloud users anywhere in the world.

Apple will certainly refuse demand, which will lead to the possibility of a similar confidentiality confidentiality to what has seen between the manufacturer of the iPhone and the FBI in the shooter case in San Bernardino …

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The Washington Post reports that the order was sent to Apple last month.

Security officers in the UK demanded that Apple create the back door, allowing them to extract all the content that Apple user up to the cloud throughout the world, the people familiar with this issue said.

An unknown order of the British government, published last month, requires a common opportunity to view completely encrypted material, and not just help in hacking a particular report and does not have well -known precedents in large democracies.

Given the strong position of Apple in confidentiality, it seems that there is no prospect that the company will agree with the requirement, increasing the prospect of a judicial battle similar to the one that was seen in the 2016 case with the FBI.

In this case, the US government demanded that Apple create a Backdoor iOS to help the FBI break into the iPhone, owned by a suspect arrow. Apple refused, and the case came to court. The drama ultimately ended when law enforcement agencies managed to access a third -party company without Apple’s help.

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The demand of the British government is as technically ignorant as the outrageous.

Firstly, most of the data is protected by through encryption (E2e). This means that Apple does not have a copy of the key and cannot decipher it. You can make sure that your iCloud data use E2ee by switching the advanced data protection.

-Mainly, even for Apple data Could The proposal, there are already legal mechanisms for law enforcement agencies for its request. They just need to go to the judge to file an application for a court decision. The judge will weigh the interests of justice against the interests of confidentiality and make an individual definition based on specific circumstances in this case. Where the judge agrees to make a court decision, Apple corresponds to them to the extent that he can do this.

The government has absolutely no justification to have uncontrolled access to the personal data of each iCloud user on the planet.

We know that Apple will refuse, not only because this happened in the cases of San Bernardino and Pencesacol, but also because we were in this road to the UK.

Back in 2023, the British government demanded access to Imessages and Facetime Calls, both of which are encrypted. Apple would not have the opportunity to obey without removing E2ee, and she refused to do this, saying that he would withdraw services from the UK, and not obeyed.

In the end, the government retreated by issuing an unconvincing statement about the “postponing” of this measure. Both the past and real governments of Great Britain voted for repressive legislation, which granted widespread powers to spy not only their citizens, but also on technical users around the world.

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