US espionage leader says UK has diminished the demand for Apple Backdoor

The United Kingdom has reduced the demand for special access to Apple cloud systems or a “backdoor” after negotiations with Trump administration, according to US National Information Director Tulsi Gabbard.

“As a result, the United Kingdom has agreed to reduce its order for Apple to provide a” back door “that would allow access to protected encrypted data of American citizens and violated in our political freedoms,” Gabbard wrote in a post on x. He also claimed to have worked with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in the negotiations.

This is the latest (and unexpected) growth in a monthly epic that saw the British government ask Apple to grant access to its principles-essentially asking for a backdoor-in the encrypted ICloud users’ data, effectively anywhere in the world, especially those who activate advanced data protection (or adp). ADP activates end -to -end encryption for iCloud, which means that only the user can access their files stored on Apple cloud servers.

The existence of the legal application was first reported by the Washington Post in February, which took place in accordance with the United Kingdom’s Law on the United Kingdom, also known as Snoopers map. The request has caused anger and condemnation by privacy and security experts, who claimed that if the UK government acquired whatever it wanted, it would weaken privacy for the whole world and will also open the door for more governments to make similar demands.

Apple initially responded by removing ADP from the UK, which means that new users could not activate it. The company also said that it will give guidance to existing users who “will eventually have to turn off this security feature”.

In the meantime, Apple also questioned the backdoor order in court, a case that was initially secret, but then cut off publicly.

Apple and the United Kingdom, which began demand on behalf of the British government, did not respond to comments.

Olivia Coleman, a secretary of the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence, referred to a letter of February to Sen. Wyden and Rep Biggs.

Apple previously told TechCrunch that the company “has never built a backdoor or master key” on any of its products or services and “never will.”

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