The White House finalized an agreement for the U.K. government to drop its demand for Apple to provide access to encrypted cloud data, The New York Times reports. Apple previously withdrew the Advanced Data Protection Feature in iCloud for U.K. customers while the government, citing the Investigatory Powers Act of 2016, was pushing Apple to provide a backdoor into its end-to-end encryption. In June, U.S. lawmakers voiced opposition to the U.K. demand.
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