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The move comes after UK security officials demanded backdoor access to the encrypted material, Washington Post said.

British security officials demanded in a secret order that the United States tech giant create so-called backdoor access so that they could view fully encrypted material, The Washington Post reported earlier this month, citing anonymous sources. The Washington Post report said the British government served Apple with what’s known as a “technical capability notice”, ordering it to provide access under a sweeping law called the Investigatory Powers Act of 2016, which has been dubbed the snoopers’ charter. The episode illustrates “one of the fundamental flaws in government efforts to undermine encryption,” said Mike Chapple, an IT professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.

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