Apple may scrap end-to-end encryption in the UK in response to government demands for a backdoor giving access to encrypted iCloud backups.

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

The UK government has demanded to be able to access encrypted data stored by Apple users worldwide in its cloud service. The news was first reported by the Washington Post, external quoting sources familiar with the matter,

Britain has ordered Apple to give it unprecedentedly broad access to encrypted user data stored on Apple's data cloud, the Washington Post newspaper reported on Friday.

The UK government demanded Apple create a back door on users' encrypted iCloud accounts to retrieve the content any user uploaded to iCloud.