UK’s dystopian totalitarian government demands to spy on citizens phones

Apple withdraws encrypted iCloud storage from UK after government demands ‘back door’ access.

The UK Home Office told Apple in a secret order to open a backdoor in its protected storage. Instead, the tech company has decided to pull the service from the UK.

“Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP) in the United Kingdom to new users and current UK users will eventually need to disable this security feature,“ says Apple spokesperson Julien Trosdorf in a statement to The Verge. “We are gravely disappointed that the protections provided by ADP will not be available to our customers in the UK given the continuing rise of data breaches and other threats to customer privacy.”