Apple has made headlines by pulling its most advanced data security tool for UK customers. It is removing Advanced Data Protection (ADP) after the Home Office asked for the right to be able to ...

ADP applies end-to-end encryption (the gold standard for data security) to just about everything you've got backed up in iCloud, making it virtually impossible for anyone else to access it.

ADP was introduced in 2022, and it’s fair to say that it didn’t make much of a splash. It remains off by default, so about the only people who enabled it were security-conscious geeks.

Apple has launched a legal challenge against the UK government over its demands to access encrypted data protected by Apple’s ...