{"id":19495,"date":"2025-07-21T11:38:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/uk-may-back-down-on-demand-for-backdoor-access-to-apple-users-encrypted-data\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:38:05","slug":"uk-may-back-down-on-demand-for-backdoor-access-to-apple-users-encrypted-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/uk-may-back-down-on-demand-for-backdoor-access-to-apple-users-encrypted-data\/","title":{"rendered":"UK may back down on demand for backdoor access to Apple users\u2019 encrypted data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government sources say pressure from Washington, including JD Vance, could lead to Home Office climbdown, according to reports<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2025\/jul\/21\/keir-starmer-nigel-farage-speech-reform-labour-crime-latest-uk-politics-live-news-updates\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/jul\/21\/independent-water-commission-fundamental-reform-integrated-regulator-ofwat-jon-cunliffe-business-live\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pressure from Washington could lead the UK government to climb down on its demand that Apple provide British law enforcement agencies with backdoor access to encrypted customer data, it has been reported.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the UK Home Office formally asked Apple to provide law enforcement agencies access to heavily encrypted data held on behalf of its customers. But the US company resisted and withdrew its advanced data protection service from the UK market. It argues privacy is one of its \u201ccore values\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jul\/21\/uk-demand-backdoor-access-apple-users-encrypted-data\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a864ac327fda2290d02e660ab4fff88265752988\/243_0_1724_1380\/master\/1724.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e9a0585f095271143eec3e4c10c480f1\" title=\"UK may back down on demand for backdoor access to Apple users\u2019 encrypted data\" \/>Government sources say pressure from Washington, including JD Vance, could lead to Home Office climbdown, according to reports<\/p>\n<p>UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nBusiness live \u2013 latest updates<\/p>\n<p>Pressure from Washington could lead the UK government to climb down on its demand that Apple provide British law enforcement agencies with backdoor access to encrypted customer data, it has been reported.<br \/>\nIn January, the UK Home Office formally asked Apple to provide law enforcement agencies access to heavily encrypted data held on behalf of its customers. But the US company resisted and withdrew its advanced data protection service from the UK market. It argues privacy is one of its \u201ccore values\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government sources say pressure from Washington, including JD Vance, could lead to Home Office climbdown, according to reports UK politics live \u2013 latest updates Business live \u2013 latest updates Pressure from Washington could lead the UK government to climb down on its demand that Apple provide British law enforcement agencies with backdoor access to encrypted &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/uk-may-back-down-on-demand-for-backdoor-access-to-apple-users-encrypted-data\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK may back down on demand for backdoor access to Apple users\u2019 encrypted data<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19496,"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\/19495"}],"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=19495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}