Apple standing up for Advanced Data Protection is way more important than it seems

Apple’s Advanced Data Protection (ADP) is a privacy feature very few people have been using. Non-techies had never heard of it, and even some geeks hadn’t enabled it. So Apple standing up to the UK government’s attack on ADP might not seem a big deal – but I’d argue that it’s way more important than it might seem, for three reasons … The British government’s worldwide attack on ADP We previously outlined what ADP is, and why it matters, but the executive summary is that it extends end-to-end encryption to almost all your iCloud data. That means that Apple has no access, and therefore cannot grant access to any government agencies who come knocking on its door. ADP was introduced in 2022, and it’s fair to say that it didn’t make much of a splash. It remains off by default, so about the only people who enabled it were security-conscious geeks. Until now. Apple effectively revealed a secret order The repressive legislation used states that companies that receive one of these orders ... Read full article.