GoKawiilApple’s effort to fight back against a UK-mandated “backdoor” to encryption continues, according to a new Financial Times report.
Tim Bradshaw reports that Apple filed a new legal challenge in July against an attempt by the UK government to force access to encrypted user data.
The report details Apple’s latest effort to push back against an attempt by the British government to weaken encryption for Apple users in the region.
The iPhone maker last month launched a new legal complaint at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over the UK government’s controversial demand that Apple allow it access to encrypted cloud backups of data belonging to British users, according to an order issued by the court.
The dispute began in early 2025, when the British government secretly ordered Apple to provide access to data protected by Advanced Data Protection for iCloud users worldwide.
Because Apple does not hold the encryption keys, complying would require weakening or redesigning the service.
Apple responded by stopping new UK users from enabling Advanced Data Protection and challenging the order before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.
The company maintains that it has never built and will never build a backdoor or master key.
US pressure eventually led the UK to drop the demand covering American users. It later emerged, however, that the worldwide order had been replaced by one targeting British users.
You can read today’s full report from the Financial Times here for the latest.