Security News > 2025 > February > UK is Ordering Apple to Break its Own Encryption
2025-02-08 15:56
The Washington Post is reporting that the UK government has served Apple with a “technical capability notice” as defined by the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, requiring them to break the Advanced Data Protection encryption in iCloud for the benefit of law enforcement. This is a big deal, and something we in the security community have worried was coming for a while now. The law, known by critics as the Snoopers’ Charter, makes it a criminal offense to reveal that the government has even made such a demand. An Apple spokesman declined to comment...
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