Did the FBI force Apple to abandon full iCloud encryption? It’s more complicated than it seems

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While Apple remains steadfast in its refusal to help the FBI unlock a pair of iPhones belonging to Florida shooter Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, the company did admit that it handed over to the FBI gigabytes of Alshamrani's data, a haul that included his iCloud backups. This is possible because although iCloud backups are encrypted, Apple holds the master key.

In light of that, a Reuters report from earlier this week alleges that Apple a few years ago was planning to introduce end-to-end encrypted iCloud backups, but ultimately relented due to immense pressure from the FBI. According to the report, the FBI told Apple that fully encrypting iCloud backups would severely "harm investigations."

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Did the FBI force Apple to abandon full iCloud encryption? It’s more complicated than it seems originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 19:37:24 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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