Apple launches end-to-end encryption for iCloud data

Apple today launched Advanced Data Protection, a new, optional end-to-end encryption scheme that prevents data in a customer’s iCloud from being decrypted on an “untrusted” device. Concretely, Advanced Data Protection would keep most of an iCloud account’s data secure even in the event that Apple was hacked, and — as a Wall Street Journal piece notes — would prevent Apple from accessing iCloud phone backups in response to law enforcement requests.
Currently available in the U.S. for members of the Apple Beta Software Program and coming to all U.S. users by t

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