A spokesperson for the British government said on Tuesday that while they would not comment on any agreement, Britain had long worked with the U.S. to tackle security threats while seeking to protect...

The US director of national intelligence says the UK has withdrawn its controversial demand to access global Apple users' data if required.

"As we have said many times before, we have never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products or services and we never will," Apple said at the time.