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Apple Pulls Encryption Feature in the UK: A Blow to Privacy

Apple has been forced to pull its Advanced Data Protection feature—an end-to-end encryption option for iCloud—out of the UK entirely. Why? The UK Home Office demanded that Apple provide a backdoor to access users’ private data, not just in the UK but worldwide. Apple, standing by its long-held stance on privacy, refused to comply. Instead of building a backdoor that…