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Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of National Intelligence, has hit out at the UK’s demand that Apple Build a “back door” in its iCloud Security System, saying such a move “of Americans ‘privacy’ Data Agreement.
Reply to a LYRICS From the Democratic Senator Senator Ron Wyden and Republican Congressman Andy Badgs, Gabard said British authorities can access lawyers and seasoning officials to investigate this matter.
“I share your serious concern about the serious implications of the UK, or any foreign country, which requires the US experiencies and civil liberties, and open a serious cyber of cyber actors.”
Apple last week Left the safest cloud storage service From the UK, it is said that it is “no longer able to provide” Advanced Data Protection (ADP) for the country’s iCloud.
The action comes after it arises that Apple has received a secret “technical capability of capability” in the last month under access to accessible cloud stored.
Under the IPA, updated last year in the last weeks of previous conservative government, the recipients of a technical ability not allowed to discuss it. Gabbard said he didn’t know the order before it was reported to the press earlier this month.
Law enforcement officials have tech companies over a decade of encryption, which investigators say criminals and care about the terrorists and child abusers.
Tech companies including Apple meta and WhatsApp argue that encryption provides important protection for consumers to smartphones, online storage services.
UK and US hit a Bilateral data access agreement In 2019, countries allowed to share evidence related to terrorism and other serious crimes after approval from a judge or other independent authority.
Gabbard says his legal team examines the implications of the UK demand for the agreement, which has not issued the data of US citizens, nationalities or agrees with residents of permanent citizens.
“I look forward to making sure the UK government has made the necessary actions to protect the privacy of American citizens, in accordance with the works of clouds and other laws,” he said.
This month’s past, Wyden and Biggs called the US Donald Trump administration and Apple ‘not allowed a secret cyber attack requested political political attack. “
Apple itself cannot access data stored using the “ED-end-to-end” encryption system. Fulfilling UK order requires Apple with the impact of self-violation securitywithout its users’ knowledge.
Unlike the standard storage system of iCloud, which Apple is able to decrypt the receipt of a legal warrant, Activating ADP requires keys to open their data.
“We are disappointed to be disappointed that the ADP-provided protections are not available to our UK customers provided continuous increase in data breaches,” Apple’s like last week.
“As we say so many times, we haven’t built a back door or master key of any products or services and we don’t want to.”