Apple Removes E2E iCloud Encryption in the UK

Apple has stopped offering Advanced Data Protection, its end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage, to new users in the UK, and existing UK users will eventually have to disable it. Apple spokesperson Julien Trosdorf told The Verge that Apple is "gravely disappointed" that ADP protections will not be available to UK customers. The move follows a report by The Washington Post that the UK Home Office, led by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, demanded backdoor access to encrypted files of users worldwide. Trosdorf said Apple has never built a backdoor or master key and never will.