Under the U.K. law, it’s illegal for the company to even talk about the existence of the order.

The United Kingdom has issued a secret order to Apple. It wants the corporation to build a backdoor for Britain’s security services that it could use to access the cloud accounts of any iPhone user across the planet.

As first reported by The Washington Post, Britain issued the order in secret last month. The U.K. isn’t looking to root around in a specific account for a specific security reason. No, it wants free access to all a user’s encrypted material, full stop. The U.K is making the demand under a 2016 law called the Investigatory Powers Act, derisively known as the Snooper’s Charter.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    2·
    15 hours ago

    Global access is wild, basically it means if the UK could force this that any five eyes country would then have the same access without needing to look bad to their citizens.

    Doesn’t the US already have that backdoor? From what you’re saying, the UK probably already has access? Not attacking, sincerely asking.

    • JelloBrains@lemmy.zipEnglish
      41·
      15 hours ago

      As far as I know Apple didn’t give in, Trump and the FBI wanted it during his first term but I don’t think it happened. At least I hope it didn’t.