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US lawmakers respond to the UK’s Apple encryption backdoor request
Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Andy Biggs said the UK’s order is “effectively a foreign cyberattack waged through political means.” The pair sent a letter to new National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, and Wyden is circulating a draft bill in the Senate.
The proposed modification to the 2018 CLOUD Act would make information requests to US-based companies by foreign entities more onerous by requiring them to first obtain a judge’s order in their home country. The UK order, first reported by The Washington Post, requires Apple to create a backdoor into its Advanced Data Protection, a feature introduced in iOS 16.2 in 2022. Security experts warn that implementing this backdoor would needlessly expose anyone with an Apple Account to foreign spying, hackers and adversarial countries.
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