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The UK will neither confirm nor deny that it’s killing encryption
Apple boldly pulled E2EE following a leaked government order.
And while several days have passed since Apple pulled its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature from UK customers, other end-to-end encryption providers like Meta, Signal, and Telegram have yet to meaningfully take an official stand beyond some of their execs posting about it on social media. “The UK government put Apple in an untenable position by demanding a backdoor in end-to-end encryption in iCloud for users everywhere in the world,” Andrew Crocker, surveillance litigation director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), told The Verge. Britain isn’t the only nation that has a beef with end-to-end encryption — several EU countries and other “Five Eyes” alliance members have expressed interest in weakening the security method, arguing that it hampers efforts to crack down on child sexual abuse material and criminal activity.
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