Apple won a major privacy fight after U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard said Britain dropped its encryption backdoor demand, ending a dispute that risked violating the CLOUD Act and undermining user security.

US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on X Monday that the United Kingdom “agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to provide a ‘back door’ that would have enabled access to the protec...

Governments and law enforcement agencies have long pushed for methods to break such encryption systems to assist with criminal investigations into terrorism and child sexual abuse.