Apple stops a key encryption feature in the UK

Due to the pressure of the British government Apple will stop offering the key encryption feature Advanced Data Protection Within the UK very soon. ADP allows each user to use end -to -end encryption for all their files uploaded to iCloud, including photos, music, notes and voice messages. The service is no longer available to new users, and anyone who is currently using it will have a short period of time to turn it off, after which access to the function will be impossible.

The privacy of personal online space in the UK has suffered a heavy blow after Apple agreed to stop offering their encryption feature Advanced Data Protection (ADP).

This functionality allows each user with access to iCloud to use end -to -end encryption not only for their passwords, bank accounts, cards and personal data, but also for photos, voice messages, backups, notes and even music.

Removing ADP means that access to iCloud files can have not only Apple, but also the British government, police and intelligence, which are also among the main oppositionists of this type of service. According to them, access to this type of encryption allows the spread of illegal information, child pornography and criminal communication.

Despite the initial insistence of the island's institutions for potential unlimited access to all iCloud files, regardless of the geographical location of users, Apple will only stop the service within the UK.

At this point, Advanced Data Protection is no longer available for new registrations, and in the near future, every current client of the company located within the United Kingdom and using the function will have to exclude it without objection.