Apple’s privacy stance has caused it to clash with the FBI in recent years, first over Apple’s inability to decrypt the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone (see “ Thoughts on Tim Cook’s Open Letter Criticizing Backdoors,” 17 February 2016), and most recently over the Pensacola naval base shooting (see “ Is the FBI Gearing Up for Another Encryption Fight with Apple?,” 9 January 2020).Īlthough Apple has used these public spats to bolster its privacy cred, Reuters sources say the company contacted the FBI before moving forward with allowing users to hold their own iCloud Backup encryption keys. Reuters is reporting that Apple made the decision not to let users create and store personal encryption keys for iCloud Backup under pressure from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. Lose that key and the data is gone forever, with no recovery option. Some similar services-including Backblaze, iDrive Online Backup, SOS Online Backup, and Zoolz Home-allow you to create and store a personal encryption key, ensuring that you and only you can ever read those backups. Instead, Apple always holds that encryption key, thus giving the company access to everything in your backup.
One downside of iCloud Backup for those who are interested in privacy is that, unlike with the Mac’s FileVault data encryption, Apple provides no option to store the encryption key yourself.
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