Apple today launched Advanced Data Protection, a new, optional end-to-end encryption scheme that prevents data in a customer’s iCloud from being decrypted on an “untrusted” device. Concretely, Advanced Data Protection would keep most of an iCloud account’s data secure even in the event that Apple was hacked, and — as a Wall Street Journal piece notes — would prevent Apple from accessing iCloud phone backups in response to law enforcement requests.
Currently available in the U.S. for members of the Apple Beta Software Program and coming to all U.S. users by the end of the year (with the rest of the world to follow in 2023), Advanced Data Protection gives iCloud users’ trusted devices (e.g. iPhones and Macs) sole access to the e...
