U.K. orders Apple to create backdoor for cloud data, FT reports

The U.K. Home Office issued an order to Apple (AAPL) in early September to create a backdoor into its cloud storage service, with the move targeting only U.K. users, The Financial Times’ Anna Gross and Tim Bradshaw report. A previous technical capability notice issued in January sought global access to encrypted user data. “Apple is still unable to offer Advanced Data Protection in the United Kingdom to new users,” Apple said on Wednesday. “We are gravely disappointed that the protections provided by ADP are not available to our customers in the U.K. given the continuing rise of data breaches and other threats to customer privacy.”