American intelligence claims that the United Kingdom renounces to demand a “stolen door” at Apple

The United States National Intelligence Director. In addition, Tulsi Gabbard, said on Monday that the United Kingdom had agreed to abandon its requirement for the iPhone Apple manufacturer to provide a “stolen door” which would have made it possible to access the protected figures of American citizens.

Gabbard published this declaration on X. Therefore, specifying that she had worked for several months with Great Britain, in collaboration with President Donald Trump and vice-president JD Vance, in order to achieve an agreement.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was in Washington on Monday. Consequently, accompanied by other European leaders, to meet Trump and discuss the Russian war in Ukraine.

The British government and Apple did not immediately respond to the requests concerning the Gabbard declaration.

American parliamentarians said in May that the UK’s request to Apple to create a stolen door for its encrypted american intelligence claims united kingdom data could be operated by cybercriminals. authoritarian regimes.

Apple. who has always stated that he would never build such access in his quantified services or devices, had challenged the order before the Tribunal of Investigation Powers (IPT) of the United Kingdom.

The iPhone manufacturer had withdrawn in February its “Advanced Data Protection” feature for British users, following this request. IPhone. Mac users and other Apple devices can activate this feature to guarantee that only them – and not even Apple – can unlock data stored on its cloud.

US officials had indicated earlier this year that they were examining if the United Kingdom had violated a bilateral. agreement by demanding that Apple builds a stolen door allowing the British government to access data backups in Apple’s encrypted storage systems.

In a letter dated February 25 addressed to American parliamentarians. Gabbard had indicated that the United States examined whether the British american intelligence claims united kingdom government had violated the Cloud Act, which prohibits requests for data from American citizens and vice versa.

Cybersecurity experts explained to Reuters that if Apple chose to create a stolen door for a government. it would inevitably end up being discovered and exploited by computer hackers.

Apple has opposed regulators on the issue of encryption since at least 2016. when the US government had tried to force it to create a tool to unlock the iPhone from an extremized suspect.