Overview

• U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced on X that the UK agreed to abandon the mandate after months of work with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
• The demand stemmed from a confidential technical capability notice issued under the UK Investigatory Powers Act, as first reported by the Washington Post.
• The order would have required Apple to disable Advanced Data Protection for U.S. users so UK agencies could access iCloud backups and other encrypted content.
• Apple withdrew Advanced Data Protection for UK accounts in February and challenged the order at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.
• There is no announced plan to restore Advanced Data Protection in the UK, and U.S. officials had been reviewing whether the UK’s move conflicted with the CLOUD Act.