Apple said that on Friday he could not offer full-to-end encryption to British customers and iPhone users, after the US media report, the UK government asked for global data access.
“Apple can no longer offer advanced data protection (ADP) to new users in the United Kingdom and current UK users will eventually need to incomplete this security facility,” he said in a statement.
ADP means only account holders can see materials such as photos and documents are stored online and are known as end-to-end encryption in clouds.
The Washington Post stated earlier this month that the UK had demanded that Apple make a “back door” to enable the government to see any information uploaded by any Apple user from all over the world.
Many tech platforms are proud of the ability to guarantee privacy through encrypted messaging channels, and providing access to law enforcement has long been seen as an off-lymph.
Apple said on Friday, “As we have said many times before, we have never created a backdoor or master key for any of our products or services and we will never.”
California -based multinational technology giants stated that it was “seriously disappointed that the security provided by ADP would not be available to our customers, which given data violations and other threats to customer privacy”.
The UK Interior Ministry told AFP: “We do not comment on operating matters.”
The end-to-end encryption law prevents the enforcement from stopping messages, which means only sender and recipients are able to read their content.
Police officials worldwide say that encryption can protect criminals, terrorists and pornographers, even when the authorities have legal warrants for investigation.
But civil rights and privacy, along with cyber security professionals, advocated data encrypting data to protect them from snuping by hackers.
“Apple is committed to our users to offer the highest level protection to their personal data and hopefully we will be able to do so in the future United Kingdom in the United Kingdom,” the tech company said.
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