Britain has dropped its demand for the iPhone maker Apple to provide a “backdoor” that would have enabled access to the protected, encrypted data of American citizens, Director of National Intelligen...

US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on X Monday that the United Kingdom “agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to provide a ‘back door’ that would have enabled access to the protec...

Governments and law enforcement agencies have long pushed for methods to break such encryption systems to assist with criminal investigations into terrorism and child sexual abuse.