Britain drops demand for access to Apple user data – POLITICO

LONDON — The British government has dropped its demand for Apple to provide “backdoor” access to user data, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Tuesday. 

“Over the past few months, I’ve been working closely with our partners in the UK, alongside [the president and vice president] to ensure Americans’ private data remains private and our constitutional rights and civil liberties are protected,” Gabbard wrote on X.  

Apple took the unprecedented step of removing its highest level of end-to-end encryption software — known as Advanced Data Protection — from the U.K. market in February after the Home Office issued a Technical Capability Notice to access the data under the Investigatory Powers Act, dubbed the “Snooper’s Charter” by critics.