Macworld Privacy and security have been central themes for Apple for years now, and the company sees itself as a market leader in making sure your data is shielded from prying eyes. While encryption and privacy are important issues for many tech companies,

Secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users.

Apple has reportedly been ordered by the U.K. government to create a backdoor giving security officials access to encrypted backups. Will Apple go along with it?

The UK government demanded Apple create a back door on users' encrypted iCloud accounts to retrieve the content any user uploaded to iCloud.

Tech companies brace after UK demands back door access to Apple cloud Tech companies brace for more attacks on encryption The UK has served a notice on Apple demanding back door access to encrypted data stored by users anywhere in the world on Apple’s cloud service.

The government wants access to not just the data of iCloud users in the UK, but from around the world, according to a report.

Britain has ordered Apple to give it unprecedentedly broad access to encrypted user data stored on Apple's data cloud, the Washington Post newspaper reported on Friday.