Everything you need to know about Apple’s changes to encryption in the UK<div class="feat-image">
</div><p>Apple today
announced that it has removed its Advanced Data Protection feature in the UK. The decision comes after the
UK government ordered Apple to build a worldwide backdoor into iCloud encryption. Instead of complying with that order, Apple chose to remove the feature in the UK. </p>
<p>There’s a huge piece of nuance getting missed in a lot of the coverage of today’s announcement. Apple is not “removing end-to-end encryption” from the UK as some headlines have suggested. The company is removing the Advanced Data Protection feature, yes, but that feature exists separately from Apple’s broader end-to-end encryption efforts.</p>
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Everything you need to know about Apple’s changes to encryption in the UK
