The government registered a series with Apple, releasing a new order, demanding that the technological company provide guaranteed access to encrypted data stored by British users in the Apple ICLOUD service.
The Ministry of the Interior previously searched for data on access and messages stored by Apple users from any country, including the United States, in a step that caused a diplomatic series with the Trump administration.
The Financial Times reported that in September the Ministry of the Interior issued a new order that Apple provides UK accessing encrypted cloud backups, but only for British citizens.
This step follows the announcement of the US Director for National Intelligence Tulsey Gabbard On the website of the social network X August 19 that the UK agreed to abandon the requirements for the Backdor, which would allow access to data from US citizens.
The Ministry of the Interior has issued a notification of technical capabilities against Apple in January, requiring the company to provide technical capabilities for the UK to access encrypted data on the Reserve Service of Apple ICloud around the world.
Apple removed her preliminary data protection service, which allowed users to encrypt their backup data using encryption keys that would not be available to Apple in February.
“As we said many times earlierWe have never built a backdor or a key a key in any of our products or services, and we will never, ”the company said in a statement.
“We are seriously disappointed that the ADP protection provided by our customers in the UK, given the constant growth of data elimination and other threats to customer confidentiality,” he added.
Apple has submitted a legal challenge Against the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Tribunal for the investigation, along with the confidentiality of International and Liberty, in the case that should be heard in January.
It is unclear whether Apple can distinguish between users who are citizens of the British, US citizens based in the UK, or British citizens in the United States, raising questions about how Apple will be able to complete the last order in the home office.
Caroline Wilson Palow, law director of Privacy International, said that the new order issued by the government could still affect Apple's safety and confidentiality.
“Although this seems progress – and in the sense that the UK clearly reacts to global care and US government pressure Created by the original Apple directive – the new order can be the same great threat to safety and confidentiality around the world as the old one, ”she said.
“In the name of the protection of Great Britain, the Great Britain government instead undermines a decisive protection, which, it seems, does not matter in the world where safety risks grow every day,” she added.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs issues TCN in accordance with the Law on powers on the investigative powers of 2016 in order to demand from technological companies to introduce technical capabilities for observation.
The TCN, released against Apple, was approved by the Commissioner for Investigative powers Brian Levezon.
Law enforcement and reconnaissance agencies should receive orders signed by the judicial commissioner to access data from Apple
