UK shelves plan to access US user data from Apple

UK shelves plan to access US user data from Apple

LONDON: Britain abandoned its demand that Apple provide so-called backdoor access to any encrypted user data stored in the cloud, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Monday. Gabbard indicated London and Washington had resolved their high-stakes dispute over electronic privacy, writing on X that she and President Donald Trump and Vice President JD…

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TikTok faces new EU probe over user data transfers to China

TikTok faces new EU probe over user data transfers to China

TikTok is under fresh investigation by European regulators over the transfer of user data to China, raising renewed concerns about privacy and surveillance risks. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), TikTok’s lead privacy regulator in the European Union, launched the new inquiry Thursday following revelations that the company may have stored European user data on…

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