WhatsApp and U.S. lawmakers on both sides are rallying behind Apple's stand against the controversial UK demands to weaken ...

21 (UPI) --Apple on Friday pulled its Advanced Data Protection end-to-end iCloud encryption from British ... British government for Apple to build a "backdoor" allowing government authorities ...

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 ...

A backdoor is a term typically deployed ... aren’t public-facing entry points. In Apple’s iCloud case, a request to compromise encryption made under the U.K.’s IPA — by way of a ...

The feature gives users the option to end-to-end encrypt many additional iCloud data categories ... insisted that providing back-door access past its encryption for authorities would open the ...

After a legal challenge by Apple, the hearing about blowing open Apple's iCloud encryption in the ... After the hearing about a mandated back door happened behind closed doors, Apple very nearly ...

The backdoor would enable the government ... and about dozen other types of files using end-to-end encryption. By default, iCloud secures data using a feature that Apple calls standard data ...

The decision comes after the UK government ordered Apple to build a worldwide backdoor into iCloud encryption. Instead of complying with that order, Apple chose to remove the feature in the UK.

Encryption is an essential component of a safe and trustworthy Internet. Weakening it not only undermines personal privacy but also jeopardizes national security and global cybersecurity ...