The UK Government is still trying to gain access to ICloud encrypted data, According to the financial timesAfter British officials submitted a new secret order demanding that Apple to create a backdoor.
On Wednesday, the British newspaper said the UK Ministry of the Interior sent an order to Apple earlier in September, asking the technological giant to create a system to let employees have access to encrypted copies of British citizens.
Privacy activists warned that compliance with such a mandate would be wrong and something that would affect users’ privacy worldwide.
When Apple spokesman Julien Trosdorf did not comment on the reported second-grade existence, but said the company was “heavily frustrated” that it could not provide advanced data protection (ADP), an Opt-in feature that allows users to make their ICLOUD.
A UK spokesman did not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comments.
This is the second time that the UK government has sent Apple what is called “Technical Ability Notice” after the first command of the UK government issued in January. At that time, the United Kingdom Ministry was looking for access to stored backups on any Apple user account worldwide protected by ADP.
This first grade, in accordance with the United Kingdom’s 2016 exploratory law, also known by critics as the “Snoopers map”, was forced to disable Apple the ability to register ADP for new users in the United Kingdom and eventually disable it for existing users.
“As we said many times before, we never built a back door or a key key to any of our products or services and we will never do it,” Apple said then.
This previous effort by the UK government apparently failed when US National Information Director Tulsi Gabbard announced that the British government had reduced the request after negotiations with Trump’s administration.
Apple reportedly questioned the legal claim in court, which ruled that the procedure should not be kept secret.
This story has been informed to include comments from the Apple spokesman.
