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 ...

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 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 ...

At the heart of the dispute is Apple's Advanced Data Protection (ADP), an optional iCloud feature ... against weakening encryption, stating it has never built a back door into its products and ...

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 ...

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.

Talk of backdoors in encrypted services is once again doing the rounds after reports emerged that the U.K. government is seeking to force Apple to open up ... to create a "backdoor" in the service ...