Apple: Most iCloud data can now be end-to-end encrypted
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Apple will now offer full end-to-end encryption for nearly all the data its users store in its global cloud-based storage system.
As part of an ongoing privacy push, Apple said Wednesday it will now offer full end-to-encryption for nearly all the data its users store in its global cloud-based storage system. That will make it more difficult for hackers, spies and law enforcement agencies to access sensitive user information. The world's most valuable company has long placed customer security and privacy at a premium. Its iMessage and Facetime communications services are fully encrypted end-to-end and it has sometimes locked horns with law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, over its refusal to unlock devices. But a lot of what customers backed up remotely using Apple'...
