BBC understands that the Great Britain government issued a new order that grants it the right to demand access to personal data of British Apple users.
This is the last development in a constant dispute between Apple and the Ministry of the Interior in connection with the confidentiality of the data.
The UK states that it should be able to access private data from individuals – with the support of the corresponding warrant – if there is a threat to national security.
Apple claims that confidentiality underlies his business and says that he will not compromise to protect data anywhere in the world.
The Ministry of the Interior refused to comment.
“We do not comment on operational issues, including, for example, confirmation or refusal to exist any notifications,” said a representative of the Ministry of the Interior.
“We will always take all the actions necessary at the internal level to ensure the safety of British citizens.”
Like the first reported by Financial TimesThe new instruction is understood to replace the previous order, which states that the UK authorities should be able to access the data of Apple users anywhere in the world in case of risk of national security.
This was furious by the US administration with the director of national intelligence Tulsey Gabbard, calling it “a clear and egregious violation of the confidentiality and civil freedoms of Americans.”
M -What Gabbard said that in August the UK He took off his demandField
It is possible that the last order, which does not include Apple customers outside the UK, is developed as a compromise.
In the early stages of the line, Apple deleted its hardest data protection tool, Advanced Data Protection (ADP) from the British market and I started a lawsuitField
The listening of the tribunal should still take place in January 2026.
Although some users still have this at the moment, Apple had “seriously disappointed” in the statement that he could no longer offer ADP in the UK.
“Increasing the safety of the cloud storage with through encryption is more urgent than ever before,” the message said, referring to the growing cases of data violations and cyber attacks.
“Apple is still committed to a proposal to our users the highest level of security for their personal data and hopes that we can do this in the future in the United Kingdom,” the company added.
“As we have already said many times, we have never built a rear or master -key to any of our products or services, and we will never be.”
The company cannot legally comment on the existence of these orders, because they must be kept secret.
But The judge sided with the coalition of civilian freedom groups And news organizations, including BBC, in order to decide that the legal line between the government and Apple cannot be a secret.
“Using a secret order to undermine the safety of Apple products, the UK government complicates safety for all of us,” said Caroline Wilson Palow, law director of Privacy International.
“If this new order is not stopped, the British government will most likely issue similar orders to other companies.”
