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End-to-end encryption places the decryption key on the user's device and nowhere else. A cloud server holding the resulting backup can store it and transfer it, but cannot read it.
That architecture is the constraint the UK government's demand runs directly into, and Apple has now filed a formal legal complaint against what the company's filing characterizes as the "latest" such demand.
The demand and what it asks for The UK government's request is to connect to the encrypted cloud backups of British iPhone users. The phrasing matters technically.
Connecting to an encrypted backup store differs from a standard lawful-access handoff, where a provider decrypts content it already holds in readable form.
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