U.S. officials are looking at whether the United Kingdom violated a bilateral agreement by demanding Apple create a "backdoor" to

US director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard wrote in a letter that her lawyers are “working to provide a legal opinion on the implications” of the UK’s reported demand for a backdoor to all Apple users’ encrypted data breaks the Cloud Act agreement,

A backdoor into iCloud end-to-end encryption would defeat the purpose of the feature, so Apple is pulling it from the UK altogether.

Apple Inc. is removing its most advanced encrypted security feature for cloud data in the UK, a stunning development that follows the government ordering the company to build a backdoor for accessing user data.

U.S. officials are examining whether the UK broke a bilateral agreement by reportedly demanding that Apple build a "backdoor" allowing the British government to access backups of data in the company's encrypted cloud storage systems.

US national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard has ‘grave concerns’ about the UK’s encryption backdoor request.