People lined up in the queue outside the Apple Store at the University Ave. in Palo Alto in California, the United States on September 20, 2024, as the official sale of Apple iPhone 16.
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Great Britain ordered Apple Washington Post informed on Friday to provide officials to officials.
The British home office, which deals with immigration and security, issued an Apple order that requires a technical “backdoor” last month, which would allow officials to watch a fully encrypted material sent to cloud software, the post informed, citing people familiar with this matter.
“We do not comment on operational issues, including, for example, confirmation or refusal to the existence of such notifications”, a spokesman for the home office.
Apple did not immediately answer CNBC for comment.
The iPhone manufacturer gives users the opportunity to store all their photos, messages, documents and others in its encrypted iCloud-Iicloud Apple service is encrypted, which means that only the material owner can display it.
The governments in the USA, Great Britain and the EU have long expressed dissatisfaction with this configuration, arguing that it enables criminals, terrorists and sex offenders to hide illegal activities. In Great Britain, the Act on investigation entitlement of 2016 authorizes the government to force technology companies to weaken their encryption technology through the so -called “backdors”.
Technology companies – including Apple – have pushed the attempts to undermine encryption, saying that it weakens the privacy of users.