The United Kingdom's Home Office is reportedly demanding that Apple, one of the world's largest tech companies, provide law enforcement access to its users' private data, not just in Britain but around the world.
European regulators are no strangers to making demands that the rest of the world has to live with. In 2022, the European Parliament mandated USB-C connections as the standard for data transfer, causing Apple to abandon its proprietary Lightning ports worldwide.
But the U.K.'s demand for access to Apple user data poses a grave threat to global digital security.
