US lawmakers are up in arms over the UK’s reported order for Apple to open up users’ encrypted iCloud backups to law enforcement.
As first reported by the Washington Post, then corroborated by other news outlets, the United Kingdom is demanding government access to end-to-end encrypted data in iCloud – that is, access even to backups protected with Apple’s Advanced Data Protection.
The reason? To help police catch criminals. However, as the Electronic Frontier Foundation appropriately points o