A secret court hearing on iCloud encryption began on Friday ... One of the more insidious aspects of the legislation the British government is using is that the orders issued to tech giants ...

It offers end-to-end encryption for iCloud backups, Photos ... the Guardian reported, as incoming legislation places demands on messaging apps to deal with extreme content and gives regulators ...

The UK is demanding backdoor access to iCloud users’ encrypted ... backdoor access — a way of bypassing encryption — to users’ information via legislation. “Simply put, the message ...

Also, it didn’t want to offer authorities an excuse for new anti-encryption legislation. One other reason for dropping iCloud encryption has to do with users. Customers might find themselves ...

You’ll find in-depth coverage in our WWDC 2025 hub. Apple employs two different forms of encryption for iCloud services. The most basic type is what the company calls “In Transit & On Server ...

Critics have labeled the legislation the "Snooper's Charter ... The feature gives users the option to end-to-end encrypt many additional iCloud data categories, including Photos, Notes, Voice ...

Without end-to-end encryption, iCloud users in the U.K. would potentially ... Ministers could have approached the issue ...

The order targeted iCloud backups that are protected by end-to-end encryption. Apple responded by announcing it would end U.K. users’ access to the strongly encrypted version of the iCloud ...

President Trump has chimed in on the UK’s attempt to force Apple to add a global backdoor to iCloud ... was asked about the UK’s anti-encryption legislation. Trump said that he told Starmer ...

A Democrat senator is looking to propose legislation to better ... the ability to circumvent the encryption of the consumer electronics giant’s iCloud backup service. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., ...

Under a 2016 piece of legislation called the Investigatory ... about dozen other types of files using end-to-end encryption. By default, iCloud secures data using a feature that Apple calls ...