The government of the UK has agreed to stop demanding Apple provide backdoor access to user data, according to the U.S. Director of Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
UK Houses of Parliament
UK Houses of Parliament
The UK has, for quite some time, demanded that Apple somehow breaks its end-to-end encryption and provide some form of backdoor. After a law update in 2024 and a secretive legal battle, the UK has apparently given up.
In a post to X on Tuesday, U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard claimed to have worked with partners in the UK, as well as President Donald Trump and VP J.D. Vance, on the UK’s backdoor mandate. After months of work, Gabbard says that the UK has dropped the mandate affecting Apple.