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UK drops its demand for access to Apple encrypted cloud data

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Apple had always insisted that it won’t bow down to pressure from UK authorities. Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Hameed Shuja

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Closed-door negotiations have led to closure, but were there strong enough legal grounds for the request, and was it all worth it?

UK authorities have backed off from their demand for ‘back door’ access to encrypted data on Apple devices. President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard revealed the move in a post on X this week.

Another unnamed US official told the Financial Times that vice-president JD Vance “negotiated

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