Apple says it will stop offering an advanced data security option for British users after the government reportedly demanded that the company provide backdoor access for any data those users have stored in the cloud.

In a dispute over a "backdoor" demand from the British government, Apple has decided to pull its advanced data protection from the British market. The security feature encrypts iCloud data with end-to-end protection.

Apple disabled its most secure data storage offering for new customers in the United Kingdom rather than comply with a secret government order.

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.

Rather than comply with a UK order to make a backdoor into encrypted data, Apple has announced it will no longer offer Advanced Data Protection in that country.

A few weeks after the UK demanded Apple to create a backdoor on iCloud's Advanced Data Protection tool, the company removed this feature.

Security officials argue that encryption hinders criminal investigations, while tech firms defend it as essential to user privacy.

Apple pulls its latest end-to-end encryption feature in the UK as it fights back against the country’s order to create a backdoor for accessing user data. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman joins Caroline Hyde and Jackie Davalos on "".

Law enforcement in the country was pressuring the company to create a tool that would act like a back door into customers’ data.