Apple turns off iCloud encryption feature in UK following reported government legal order.
The removal of the Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature in the U.K. follows the British government reportedly issuing a secret legal demand to Apple to provide it with access to encrypted iCloud accounts.
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Lol. Some galaxy brains were 'Oh my Apple would never roll over and simply do what they're told! They'll keep our data safe!' and mad at me for saying exactly this was going to happen.
Well, huh, look at that. A corporation that rolled over faster than a well-trained golden retriever. Who would have guessed it.
To be fair this is the opposite of rolling over. Rolling over would be adding the back door.
Yep. This is exactly what I expected them to do. They don’t want the liability of losing your data or enabling your privacy to be compromised on their devices, and the eroded trust of their customer base from that.
Unfortunately the UK put them between a rock and a hard place here. As shitty as it is, I’m glad they opted to remove the feature for only that market, rather than weaken it for everyone. It sucks, but it’s the lesser evil.
I don’t think they had any good choices here. Just like the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, they decided not to make the device’s OS inherently less secure with the inclusion of a backdoor and I can at least appreciate that much.
