Britain has dropped its demand for Apple to provide backdoor access to encrypted user data stored in the cloud.

Britain has dropped its demand for the iPhone maker Apple to provide a "backdoor" that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said.

U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on Monday the U.K. has dropped its requirement for Apple to provide a so-called backdoor to American users’ encrypted data. In a post on X, Gabbard said she had worked with U.