If Apple complies with this, the UK government will gain access to all iCloud data globally. The only way Apple comes out of this with any integrity is to leave the UK market. If they give in to this, every regime in the world will demand the same thing. And that’s before we even get to the fact that there’s no such thing a “backdoor” for just so-and-so. Either there is a door or there isn’t and if there is, anyone who obtains the key can use it.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/07/uk-confronts-apple-with-demand-for-cloud-backdoor-to-users-encrypted-data

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  • Tom Stoneham
    3•4 days ago

    @[email protected] TBH the leak is the problem. If Apple could make credible in private that they would leave the UK market, the government could back down, in private.

    That’s just how diplomacy works. This isn’t regulation but international relations between states.

    But now it is public, neither side can back down without serious consequences.