Apple has announced the closure of its most advanced security encryption feature for cloud data. The company has taken this unexpected step amid the increasing demand of the government to access users data. The company has discontinued the Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature providing end-to-end encryption in cloud data. New users are not able to turn on this feature and existing users will have to disable it.
What will be the effect of this decision?
Due to the closure of this feature, there will be no encryption on iCloud backup in Britain. With its help, Apple may access other data including copy of IMessages in some cases. If legal agencies demand, then they will have to share this data with those agencies as well. Until the end-to-end encryption was enabled, Apple could not reach this data. Experts say that this feature is disabled will make it easier for users data for hackers etc. and users have had to lose hand with a privacy technology.
dispute was going on between the government and the company
There was a long -standing dispute between the government and the company over this feature. Government agencies said that this feature was an obstacle between their efforts to stop crime and mass surveillance. On the other hand, Apple says that he has never given backdoor access to encrypted data. Once this is done, it will be easy for the government as well as hackers to access the data.
Store data will not be affected on the device
Due to this feature disabled, there will be no effect on the encryption of data storing on the device. However, nowadays, due to a large number of photos, videos, messages history and frequent updates, a large number of users also store their data on the cloud. Apart from this, it is very difficult to get back in the event of losing the store data on the device. That’s why people choose cloud storage.
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