Apple just landed a key win for the global encryption fight
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook gave a thumb on December 12, 2024 on the Apple center round in London and England.
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Apple After the US government agreed to quit the request for a “back door” to the authorities, the company has provided a “back door” request, which provided users to users’ encrypted data.
The iPhone manufacturer will not be alone to rejoice.
Development came after a comprehensive negotiations between Britain and the United States, expressing national security concerns on demand.
At the root of the row, there was end -to -end encryption, a technology that secures that even the company providing communication between the two devices can view any message.
How did we come here?
Apple’s story of the British War of Privacy began in early this year when the British government requested access to the encrypted cloud service through a technical “back door”.
Such a rear door has been objected by Apple for a long time. In 2016, the Federal Investigation Office tried to enable Apple to create software. San Bernardino, California’de 2015 terrorist attack from one of the shooters who have saved an iPhone to unlock.
Other companies had to defend the government’s attempts to weaken the end -to -end encryption. For example, when Meta announced the encryption plans for all messages in the Facebook Messenger application, the movement Drew Drew condemnation From the UK House Office. Meta had already offered encryption at WhatsApp.
Global Encryption Discussion
Monday news may have wider effects for discussions around the end -to -end encryption.
Governments and law enforcement officers have long for a long time for a long time to break such encryption systems to assist criminal investigations on terrorism and child sexual abuse.
However, technology companies said creating a encryption rear door not only weakens user privacy, but also exposes to possible cyber attacks. Cyber security experts say that any rear door built for a government will be found and exploited by pirates at the end of the rear door.
The US National Intelligence officials were also concerned about Apple’s consequences of such a rear door.
For Apple, the UK’s concession on encryption may mean that the company’s cloud data, which the company stopped offering offers to the British in February, may bring back its safest service for advanced data protection (ADP).
It is not yet clear that Apple will re -introduce the ADP service to the UK market.
CNBC reached the Apple and the UK government to comment.
