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Feb 2025
48m 30s

Apple Pulls Advanced Data Protection in ...

Deirdre Connolly, Thomas Ptacek, David Adrian
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Apple has pulled the availability of their opt-in iCloud end-to-end encryption feature, called Advanced Data Protection, in the UK. This doesn't only affect UK Apple users, however. To help us make sense of this surprising move from the fruit company, we got Matt Green, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins, and Joe Hall, Distinguished Technologist at the I ... Show More
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