Apple’s excellent Advanced Data Protection (APD) is central to this new furor. This applies end-to-end encryption to almost all the sensitive data on your iPhone, including your iCloud drive, photos, messaging and more. It removes previous loopholes, where Apple had access to the encryption keys to unlock your messages, by way of example.

U.K. officials have ordered Apple Inc. to implement a backdoor in its iCloud file storage service, the Washington Post reported today. The backdoor would enable the government to access Apple users’ encrypted files.