Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says she has serious concerns about the British government’s reported demand that Apple provide backdoor access to any data stored in the cloud.

Donald Trump’s national intelligence director has hit out at Yvette Cooper’s “egregious” order for Apple to develop an iPhone backdoor.

Tulsi Gabbard, the head of US National Intelligence, says she was not informed in advance about the UK government's demand to be able to access Apple customers' encrypted data from anywhere in the world.