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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Martyn Landi

Government has made UK user data ‘less secure’ with Apple row – experts

Apple iPhones on display (PA) - (PA Wire)

The UK government’s push for data access which led to Apple withdrawing a security tool from the UK has made users “less secure”, experts have said.

The tech giant said on Friday it was withdrawing an opt-in feature called Advanced Data Protection (ADP) from its iCloud service in the UK, which increased the amount of personal data protected by end-to-end encryption, which no-one beyond the account holder – not even Apple – can access.

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