A few weeks after the UK government demanded Apple to create a backdoor on users' encrypted iCloud accounts to retrieve the content any Apple user has uploaded to the cloud, Apple decided to pull out ...

Our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team explores key changes to UK data protection rules introduced by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 and provides a checklist of ...

In May 2020, we published a blog post about the US-UK Data Access Agreement, a first-of-its-kind reciprocal agreement between the US and the UK. Under the agreement, law enforcement agencies in either ...

A new data bill from the U.K. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) aims to revive several measures that failed to pass under the prior government, while rowing back on some ...

The Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill is the first major piece of data protection legislation since the UK left the European Union (EU) four years ago. Instead of completely ...

Apple has withdrawn its Advanced Data Protection iCloud feature from the United Kingdom following government demands for backdoor access to encrypted user data, according to Bloomberg. The move comes ...

In March 2023, the UK government re-introduced its controversial Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill to Parliament. The purpose of the legislation is to establish a UK version of the ...

The European Commission has renewed its data adequacy agreement with the UK, guaranteeing free flow of data with the European Union (EU) for a further six years. The agreement assures that the UK’s ...

Apple users in the UK can no longer access one of the company's most powerful data protection tools, as first reported by Bloomberg. The feature, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), allows iPhone users to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Birch is a London-based advisor on digital financial services. Financial services rest on the twin, but interrelated, ...

Experian Netherlands has been fined EUR 2.7 million ($3.2 million) for multiple violations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) The Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection has formally ...

Apple Inc. has disabled Advanced Data Protection for U.K. users following a reported request from the government to build a backdoor into the feature. The company made the encryption tool inaccessible ...