Apple standing up for Advanced Data Protection is way more important than it seems<div class="feat-image">
</div><p>Apple’s <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/advanced-data-protection/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Advanced Data Protection[/url] (ADP) is a <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/privacy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">privacy[/url] feature very few people have been using. Non-techies <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/26/brits-unmoved-by-loss-of-advanced-data-protection-and-apple-needs-to-change-that/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">had never heard of it[/url], and even some geeks hadn’t enabled it.</p>
<p>So <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/aapl/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apple[/url] standing up to the <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/07/british-government-secretly-ordered-apple-to-create-a-worldwide-icloud-backdoor/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">UK government’s attack on ADP[/url] might not seem a big deal – but I’d argue that it’s
way more important than it might seem, for three reasons … </p>
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Apple standing up for Advanced Data Protection is way more important than it seems
