Apple threatened to remove iMessages, video messaging or FaceTime calls from its products in Britain.
In reaction to the UK government's plans to increase the capabilities of intelligence services' digital surveillance, Apple has threatened to discontinue its UK-based messaging programs, including FaceTime and iMessage.
Before communication programs are made available to the public, the government wants to compel technology companies to assess their security measures.
The law permits the government to order that security elements be disabled without public review.
Apple said that it would not remove security protections in a single nation because it was worried about how vulnerable its devices would be to customers. Apple also opposed several parts of the plan.
The business said that the British government's policies directly threaten data security and user privacy and will have an impact on users outside of the UK.
The government's plans have also drawn criticism from other companies, such as Meta and Signal, which claim that putting them into practice would harm the privacy of their encrypted communications platforms. Signal has threatened to stop providing its services in the UK if the new regulations are put into place.
End-to-end encryption technology is used by messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal as well as FaceTime and iMessage to make sure that only the sender and recipient can access the data.
No third party, such as ISPs or governments, can access the data because it is encrypted before being transferred and can only be decoded using a private key on the device of the recipient.
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