The U.K. government is still trying to gain access to encrypted iCloud data, according to the Financial Times, after British officials allegedly filed a new secret order demanding Apple build a backdoor.
On Wednesday, the British newspaper reported that the U.K. Home Office sent an order to Apple earlier in September requesting that the tech giant create a system to let officials access encrypted cloud backups of British citizens.
Privacy activists have warned that complying with such an order would be a mistake, and something that would impact the privacy of users worldwide.
When reached via email, Apple’s spokesperson Julien Trosdorf did not comment on the reported existence second order, but said the company was “gravely disappointed” that it cannot offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP), an opt-in feature that allows users to make their iCloud backups end-to-end encrypted so that not even Apple can access the data, to users in the country.
A spokesperson for the U.K. Home Office did not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment.
