UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door

The British government is said to be ready to go back from its battle with Apple to obtain access to the rear door to the secure data from users protected by the company’s iCloud encryption. The victory did not come by the courts, nor the figures of the government which change their minds on the questions of confidentiality, but thanks to the continuous pressure of the United States during the commercial negotiations of the two countries.

Several unnamed British officials have declared to the Financial time that the British government is working on an outcome. “The Home Office will mainly have to go back,” said one of them, adding that vice-president JD Vance was particularly opposed to the request of the United Kingdom, which could violate the Treaty of the Cloud Act between the two countries. “It’s a large red line in the United States – they don’t want us to play with their technological companies.”

Another official has echoed this, explaining that the United Kingdom wants to avoid pushing too hard for “everything that looks like the American vice-president as a problem of freedom of expression”. A third official said that the United Kingdom had “his back against the wall” and wanted a way out: “It is a problem with the own creation of the Home Office, and they work on a path to get around now”.