Apple’s commitment to end-to-end encryption is so strong that it withdrew a key
privacy feature
from the UK marketrather than be forced to compromise it globally. The company also faced pressure on this front from the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA).
In a surprising twist, the White House came out in support of strong encryption, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is now urging Apple and other tech giants to stand firm on the issue …
I describe the most recent events as surprising as you may recall that Apple was previously involved in a long-running
battle with the FBI over compromising the security of iPhones.
Indeed, less than a year ago Trump came out in
strong opposition to Apple, stating that the FBI must be allowed to force Apple to unlock access to the iPhones of suspects. This
echoed earlier commentshe made back in 2020. The FBI said in 2019 that end-to-end encryption (E2EE)
“infects” law enforcement.
Fast forward to this year, and suddenly the US government is
opposed to iCloud backdoors. Trump even threatened to cancel a US-UK trade deal
unless Britain backed down –
which it recently did.
good job On Tim Apple standing up to Trump all these years, just for the administration to finally get on board