{"id":77848,"date":"2025-08-19T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77848\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:31:09","slug":"britian-backs-down-on-demand-for-backdoor-access-to-apple-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77848\/","title":{"rendered":"Britian backs down on demand for ‘backdoor’ access to Apple data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aug. 19 (UPI) — Britain backed down on demand for “backdoor” access to Apple users’ data, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

Gabbard wrote in a post on X<\/a> that the British government agreed to drop the request for access to Apple’s encrypted data after discussions between the new nations.\n<\/p>\n

“Over the past few months, I’ve been working closely with our partners in the U.K., alongside [President Doanld Trump] and [Vice President JD Vance], to ensure Americans’ private data remains private and our Constitutional rights and civil liberties are protected,” Gabbad wrote. “As a result, the UK has agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to provide a ‘back door’ that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and encroached on our civil liberties.”<\/p>\n

In February, Apple pulled its Advanced Data Protection<\/a> end-to-end iCloud encryption from British customers’ devices after the government requested access to the data. Following the events of the British government pressuring Apple to build a “backdoor” to allow government authorities to access user iCloud data.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear whether Apple would restore access<\/a> to British users following the agreement.\n<\/p>\n

Apple cannot view the data of its customers who have activated its advanced data protection.<\/p>\n

“We have never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products or services, and we never will,” the company said.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 19 (UPI) — Britain backed down on demand for “backdoor” access to Apple users’ data, U.S. Director…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[84,59,57,58,50,51,39680,56,54,55,71],"class_list":["post-77848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-tulsi-gabbard","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}