UK, US Hold Talks in Bid to Resolve Apple Encryption Feud
- British request to Apple for backdoor provoked US objections
- Secret hearing set for Friday in company’s appeal of UK order
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British officials have held private talks with their US counterparts in an attempt to resolve concerns that the UK is trying to force Apple Inc. to build a backdoor into Americans’ encrypted data, according to people familiar with the matter.
The high-level discussions took place after Apple removed its most advanced encrypted security feature for cloud data in the UK. That was a response to an order by British authorities in January asking the company to circumvent encryption to help them pursue certain national security and criminal investigations.