The UK government has issued a new order to Apple to create a backdoor into its cloud storage service, this time targeting only British users’ data, despite US claims that Britain had abandoned all attempts to break the tech giant’s encryption.

Caroline Wilson Palow, legal director of the campaign group Privacy International, said the new order might be “just as big a threat to worldwide security and privacy” as the old one.

She said: “If Apple breaks end-to-end encryption for the UK, it breaks it for everyone. The resulting vulnerability can be exploited by hostile states, criminals, and other bad actors the world over.”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/uk-once-again-demands-backdoor-to-apples-encrypted-cloud-storage/

Posted by BendicantMias

3 comments

  1. Stasi Britain is back again.

    Although…tbf…at this stage we almost need it cause terrorists and criminals know that we asked and didn’t get it….

  2. I long for the day we have people in power who aren’t bloviating morons, a generation out of touch.

    Apple is not refusing, it cannot accede to their demand.

  3. Bullshit – “If Apple breaks end-to-end encryption for the UK, it breaks it for everyone. The resulting vulnerability can be exploited by hostile states, criminals, and other bad actors the world over.”

    China has data stored locally in China, and it doesn’t break anything for anyone. Apple just needs to do similar for UK, and host data locally.

    I agree with this. Data shouldn’t be at the dictate of foreign companies.

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