The UK is trying a new attempt to access Apple Cloud data

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The UK government ordered Apple to allow access to coded cloud backup copies of British users, after a previous attempt to issue a broader request that included US agents violently from the Trump administration.

The UK Ministry of Interior demanded this in early September apple Create the rear door in the service of the cloud storage for users, but stipulates that the request applies only to the data of British citizens, according to the people who have been informed of this matter.

The previous technical capacity (TCN) in January sought global access to encrypted user data. The move sparked a diplomatic clash between British governments and the United States and threatened to remove the efforts of the two countries to secure a trade agreement.

In February, Apple pulled the safest cloud storage service, iCloud Advanced Data Protection, from the United Kingdom.

Apple said on Wednesday: “Apple is still unable to provide advanced data protection in the United Kingdom to new users,” Apple said on Wednesday. “We are very disappointed because the protection provided by ADP is not available to our UK customers due to the continued climbing of data and other threats to the customer’s privacy.”

He added: “As we said several times before, we have never built a back door or a main key for any of our products or services and we will never be able to do so.”

The Ministry of Interior said: “We do not comment on operational issues, including, for example, confirmation or denying any such notifications,” the Ministry of Interior said.

“We will always take all necessary measures at the local level to maintain the safe citizens of the UK.”

Apple and home office are restricted from TCNS discussion under the law.

Privacy activists say that any attempt to force Apple to relinquish the safety of its systems can offer special information to global customers, including passwords, messages and health data, which can all be stored in iCloud.

Caroline Wilson Palo, the legal director of the International Privacy Campaign Group, said that the new thing “may be a major threat to security and privacy all over the world” like the old.

She said: “If Apple breaks the encryption from a run to end to the United Kingdom, it breaks it for everyone. The weakness produced by hostile countries, criminals and other bad actors can be exploited all over the world.”

Apple has submitted a complaint to the Judgment Power Court regarding the original request, with the support of a parallel legal defiance of Privacy International and Liberty, another campaign group. This case is scheduled to be heard early next year, but the new matter may restart the legal process.

TCNS is issued under the UK investigation authorities law, which the government maintains by law enforcement to investigate terrorism and sexual assault on children.

The main numbers of President Donald Trump’s administration were launched, including Vice President C. Trump likened the UK request for Chinese government surveillance.

In August, Gabbard told the Financial Times that the United Kingdom “agreed to drop” its request to enable Apple to access the “encrypted data protected by American citizens.”

A person close to the Trump administration said at the time that Apple’s request to break its encryption must be completely dropped to be loyal to the agreement between the two countries. The person said that any back door will weaken the protection of American citizens.

Last month, the UK Prime Minister, Sir Kerr Starmer, hosted Trump on a government visit, during which the world’s leaders announced that American technology companies will invest billions of dollars to build an artificial intelligence infrastructure in Britain.

Members of the American delegation raised the issue of requesting the apple at the time of Trump’s visit, according to two people who were briefed on this. However, two senior British government figures said that the US administration was no longer inclined to the UK government to cancel the matter.