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Apple withdraws its most secure cloud storage service in the United Kingdom after the British government ordered the iPhone manufacturer to grant secret access to customer data.
“Apple can no longer offer advanced data protection (ADP) to the United Kingdom to new users and current British users will possibly deactivate this security feature,” the American technology company said on Friday.
Last month, Apple received a “technical capacity opinion” under the British survey powers, said people familiar with the FT at the time.
The so -called “stolen” data request to the user data would have enabled law and security application to support iPhone backups and other cloud data which is otherwise inaccessible, even for Apple himself.
The law, nicknamed a “charter of snooping” by its criticisms, has extraterritorial powers, which means that British police could access the encrypted data of Apple clients all over the world, including the states- United.
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