STOCKHOLM (Nyhetsbyrån Direkt) American technology conglomerate Apple announced Wednesday a new data encryption system to reduce the risk of users’ cloud data being hacked through attacks against the company. It paves the way for conflict with police and law enforcement agencies from around the world, reports The Wall Street Journal.
The more advanced data protection should allow for better “end to end” encryption on backups of Apple platform features such as iCloud, Notes and Photos.
The measures should allow Apple to protect user data even if hackers gain access to the company’s servers, but this also means that it will be more difficult for the long arm of the law to obtain data for investigations, even in the presence of court orders for it, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Attention has long been drawn to Apple in cases in which the US federal police FBI has been denied access to encrypted data in suspects’ locked iPhones, data needed for investigations into, among other things, terrorism. Apple has stubbornly refused to unlock such phones on the grounds that doing so would compromise all users’ direct hardware encryption, the shell protection that prevents unauthorized people from accessing phones, computers and tablets.
However, Apple has previously granted access to cloud data that was stored after users backed up data to iCloud, and Apple thus gained access and was then able to release information without risking privacy protection. encryption shell. However, such information sharing will most likely be technically difficult if the new encryption measures are implemented, as Apple protects itself from user data. The way is paved for new battles with police authorities and politicians from all over the world, writes the newspaper.
