News Summary

• British officials allegedly filed a new secret order demanding Apple build a backdoor.
• The U.K. Home Office sent an order to Apple earlier in September requesting that the tech giant create a system to let officials access encrypted cloud backups of British citizens.
• Privacy activists have warned that complying with such an order would be a mistake, and would impact the privacy of users worldwide.
• Apple’s spokesperson Julien Trosdorf did not comment on the reported existence second order, but said the company was “gravely disappointed” that it cannot offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP) to users in the country.