The UK is reportedly seeking access to data secured by end-to-end encryption with Apple's Advanced Data Protection, which prevents even Apple from seeing user data. Advanced Data Protection is an optional setting that users can enable for iCloud backups, photos, notes, and other data.

Secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users.

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Apple has reportedly been ordered by the U.K. government to create a backdoor giving security officials access to encrypted backups. Will Apple go along with it?

A secret order would compel Apple to build a back door into its most secure iCloud backup option, The Washington Post reports.

Apple Inc.’s feature to enable end-to-end encryption for user iCloud accounts has come under fire in the UK, where government officials want the company to disable it and build a backdoor that lets them access data.