Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Thorin Klosowski
“The Financial Times reports that the U.K. is once again demanding that Apple create a backdoor into its encrypted backup services. The only change since the last time they demanded this is that the order is allegedly limited to only apply to British users. That doesn’t make it any better. The demand uses a power called a ‘Technical Capability Notice’ (TCN) in the U.K.’s Investigatory Powers Act. At the time of its signing we noted this law would likely be used to demand Apple spy on its users. After the U.K. government first issued the TCN in January, Apple was forced to either create a backdoor or block its Advanced Data Protection feature — which turns on end-to-end encryption for iCloud — for all U.K. users. The company decided to remove the feature in the U.K. instead of creating the backdoor.” (10/01/25)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/uk-still-trying-backdoor-encryption-apple-users