UK has backed down on demand to access US Apple user data, spy chief says | Apple
The British government has fallen on her insistence on the fact that Apple Enables the law enforcement officer access to US customer data, says Donald Trump's spy chief Tulsi Gabbard.
The American director of the National Secret Service recorded the claim to X after a month-long dispute iPhone Manufacturer, the British government and the US President. Trump had accused Britain of behaving like China and told Prime Minister Keir Starrer: “You can't do that”.
Neither the Ministry of the Interior Apple also comment on the alleged agreement, from which Gabbard said that the United Kingdom no longer demanded that Apple had made “a” back door “available that enables access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and entered our civil freedom”.
The transatlantic series started as the Home Office gave Apple a “technical functional” According to the law on investigations, according to the company, law enforcement must support law enforcement in providing evidence. Apple reacted with a legal challenge that the Interior Ministry asked to be secret, but to be published the judges who were ordered.
The US Vice President, JD Vance, also complained and said: “I don't want American citizens to be spied on.” He said it was “crazy” that “we will create a back door in our own technology networks that our enemies are now using”.
Groups for bourgeois freedom warned that the back door would bring politicians, activists and minority groups to a special risk of a targeted danger.
In February, Apple reacted with the withdrawal The option for its new British customers to enable the options for the advance payment data and said that it was “deeply disappointed” and would never build a back door in one of his products. This clearly meant that many British customers could not benefit from the end-to-end encryption of services, including the iCloud drive, photos, notes or memories, which made them more susceptible to data violations.
Gabard said: “In the past few months, together with President Trump and Vice President Vance, I have worked closely with our partners in Great Britain to ensure that the private data of the Americans remain private and our constitutional rights and bourgeois freedoms are protected.”
It is not clear whether the technical skills that requires data access are withdrawn or changed overall. In theory, it could be limited to allow access to the data only by British citizens, although experts warned that this could be technologically unrealistic. It also increases the risk that other foreign governments could still find a way to use the back door.
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It is also not clear whether Apple can access new British customers to its highest level of data protection.
The Home Office refused to confirm Gabbard's claim and said: “We do not comment on operational affairs, including confirmation or rejection of the existence of such communications. We had a long time common security and intelligence agencies with the United States to address the most serious threats such as terrorism and sexual abuse of children, including the role that is being met by quickly mobile technology in these threats.” “
It added: “These agreements have long contained security measures to protect privacy and sovereignty: For example, the data access agreement contains critical protective measures in order to prevent the UK and that of us to address the data of the citizens of the other. to operate the terrorist attacks. “
With the data access contract in Great Britain, British agencies can submit inquiries for communication requests directly to communication service providers, including social media platforms and messaging services, in the USA. However, this must serve for the purpose of the examination, contraception, recognition and persecution of serious crime, said civil servants.
Apple was addressed for a comment.
