{"id":220473,"date":"2025-08-20T07:24:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/u-k-government-drops-apple-encryption-backdoor-order-after-u-s-civil-liberties-pushback"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:24:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:24:45","slug":"u-k-government-drops-apple-encryption-backdoor-order-after-u-s-civil-liberties-pushback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/u-k-government-drops-apple-encryption-backdoor-order-after-u-s-civil-liberties-pushback","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Government Drops Apple Encryption Backdoor Order After U.S. Civil Liberties Pushback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-k-government-drops-apple-encryption-backdoor-order-after-u-s-civil-liberties-pushback2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.K. government has apparently abandoned its plans to force Apple to weaken encryption protections and include a backdoor that would have enabled access to the protected data of U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, in a statement posted on X, said the U.S. government had been working with its partners with the U.K. over the past few months to ensure that Americans\u2019 civil liberties are protected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, the U.K. has agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to provide a \u2018backdoor\u2019 that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and encroached on our civil liberties,\u201d Gabbard <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DNIGabbard\/status\/1957623737232007638\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. government has apparently abandoned its plans to force Apple to weaken encryption protections and include a backdoor that would have enabled access to the protected data of U.S. citizens. U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, in a statement posted on X, said the U.S. government had been working with its partners [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1625,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}