Gabbard Calls for Investigation of UK's Apple Backdoor Request
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US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard called for an investigation and expressed concern after the UK government ordered Apple Inc. to build a backdoor into the global data of its customers.
Gabbard said the decision could leave Americans' encrypted data at risk of being exposed, according to a letter she sent on Tuesday to two US lawmakers who had expressed their own objections to the matter. Instead of complying with the UK and building a backdoor, Apple removed Advanced Data Protection from the country last Friday, eliminating a feature for end-to-end encrypting cloud storage, device backups and apps like notes.
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