UK May Backtrack on Controversial Demand for Backdoor to Encrypted Apple User Data

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By Hartley CharltonJul 20, 2025, 10:50 pm161 pts
The British government may be forced to drop its plans to force Apple to build a backdoor to access encrypted user data, the Financial Times reports. In February, it emerged that the British government had secretly demanded Apple gives it access to all encrypted user content uploaded to iCloud. It argued the…

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