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Gabbard Decries Britain’s Reported Demand for Apple to Provide Backdoor Access to Users’ Cloud Data

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The Director of National Intelligence said such a demand would violate Americans’ rights and raise concerns about a foreign government pressuring a U.S.-based technology company.
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UK Demanded Apple Add a Backdoor to iCloud

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Last month, the UK government demanded that Apple weaken the security of iCloud for users worldwide. On Friday, Apple took steps to comply for users in the United Kingdom. But the British law is written in a way that requires Apple to give its government access to anyone, anywhere in the world. If the government demands Apple weaken its security worldwide, it would increase everyone’s cyber-risk in an already dangerous world.

If you’re an iCloud user, you have the option of turning on something called “advanced data protection,” or ADP. In that mode, a majority of your data is end-to-end encrypted. This means that no one, not even anyone at Apple, can read that data. It’s a restriction enforced by mathematics—cryptography—and not policy. Even if someone successfully hacks iCloud, they can’t read ADP-protected data…

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Apple Exec Admits 27 Percent App Store Fee was Likely a Violation of Court Order

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Long-time Apple executive Phil Schiller admitted in court that the 27 percent fee Apple imposed likely violated a court order in Epic v. Apple.
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