Trump likens UK encryption law to ‘something you hear about with China’

President Trump has chimed in on the UK’s attempt to force Apple to add a global backdoor to iCloud, likening the demand to “something that you hear about with China.” Trump met with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at The White House yesterday for a wide-ranging conversation on world politics, tariffs, free speech, and more. It marked Starmer’s first visit to Washington, D.C., since Trump took office last month. In an interview with British news outlet The Spectator yesterday, Trump was asked about the UK’s anti-encryption legislation. Trump said that he told Starmer that the UK “can’t do this.” “We told them you can’t do this. We actually told him [Starmer]… that’s incredible. That’s something, you know, that you hear about with China.” Trump’s comments came after his Director of National Security, Tulsi Gabbard, suggested that the UK may have broken a bilateral agreement when secretly demanding Apple to build a global backdoor into iCloud. Gabbard said she has “grave concern about ... Read full article.