President Donald Trump has strongly criticized the U.K. government’s demand for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) to create a backdoor into its encrypted cloud storage, comparing the move to authoritarian surveillance tactics used in China.
What Happened: In an interview with The Spectator last week, Trump said that he confronted British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during their meeting about the U.K.’s attempt to force Apple to weaken its encryption for law enforcement access.
“We told them: you can’t do this,” Trump said. “That’s incredible. That’s something, you know, that you hear about with China.”
Apple has withdrawn its Advanced Data Protection system for iCloud in the U.K. rather than comply with a technical capability notice issued under the country’s Investigatory Powers Act (IPA).
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