{"id":17655,"date":"2025-02-07T15:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/uk-demands-ability-to-access-apple-users-encrypted-data\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:37:20","slug":"uk-demands-ability-to-access-apple-users-encrypted-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/uk-demands-ability-to-access-apple-users-encrypted-data\/","title":{"rendered":"UK demands ability to access Apple users\u2019 encrypted data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expert says government has \u2018lit the blue touch paper on a truly enormous fight\u2019 as it challenges firm\u2019s privacy stance<\/p>\n<p>The UK government has demanded that Apple creates a backdoor in its encrypted cloud service, in a confrontation that challenges the US tech firm\u2019s avowed stance on protecting user privacy.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2025\/02\/07\/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk\/\">reported on Friday<\/a> that the Home Office had issued a \u201ctechnical capability notice\u201d under the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA), which requires companies to assist law enforcement in providing evidence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/feb\/07\/uk-confronts-apple-with-demand-for-cloud-backdoor-to-users-encrypted-data\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a2dae2accbd8b3f5e2eba6b8e51d112c9df95969\/0_268_4741_2846\/master\/4741.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7fcce841cc53bb7c6eb189c5d0342467\" title=\"UK demands ability to access Apple users\u2019 encrypted data\" \/>Expert says government has \u2018lit the blue touch paper on a truly enormous fight\u2019 as it challenges firm\u2019s privacy stance<br \/>\nThe UK government has demanded that Apple creates a backdoor in its encrypted cloud service, in a confrontation that challenges the US tech firm\u2019s avowed stance on protecting user privacy.<br \/>\nThe Washington Post reported on Friday that the Home Office had issued a \u201ctechnical capability notice\u201d under the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA), which requires companies to assist law enforcement in providing evidence. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expert says government has \u2018lit the blue touch paper on a truly enormous fight\u2019 as it challenges firm\u2019s privacy stance The UK government has demanded that Apple creates a backdoor in its encrypted cloud service, in a confrontation that challenges the US tech firm\u2019s avowed stance on protecting user privacy. The Washington Post reported on &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/uk-demands-ability-to-access-apple-users-encrypted-data\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK demands ability to access Apple users\u2019 encrypted data<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17655"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}