The United Kingdom abandons the request for a stolen door in the encryption of apples

The United Kingdom will no longer force Apple to provide access as a stolen door to secure user data protected by the company’s iCloud encryption service, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

“In the past few months, I have worked closely with our partners in the United Kingdom, alongside @potus and @VP, to ensure that the private data of the Americans remain private and that our constitutional rights and our civil freedoms are protected”, ” Gabbard posted on X Monday. “Consequently, the United Kingdom has agreed to remove its mandate so that Apple provides a” back door “which would have enabled access to the encrypted data protected from American citizens and empiety on our civil freedoms.”

This announcement follows the United Kingdom make a secret order In January of this year, demanding that Apple offers him a door holder to encrypted files downloaded by users around the world. In response, Apple drew advanced data protection (ADP) quantified the iCloud storage offer of the United Kingdom and challenged the order, winning the right to discuss the case publicly in April. Earlier this year, US officials began to examine whether the British ordinance had violated the agreement of the bilateral cloud law, which prohibits the United Kingdom and the United States from publishing requests for the other data.

This pressure from the United States Sparge of reports last month that Great Britain would return the requests he published in Apple, with an unnamed British official indicating to the Financial time That the United Kingdom “had its back against the wall” and was looking for a way out. Although it is not clear if the United Kingdom would negotiate new conditions with Apple which avoid involving data from American citizens, said an anonymous American official Financial time that such negotiations would not be faithful to the new agreement.

The order would have now been deleted, it is not clear if Apple will restore access to its ADP service in the United Kingdom. We contacted Apple to comment. The British home office refused to comment on the situation.