Apple’s New Encryption Policy Will Complicate E-Discovery Efforts | EDRM

Apple has seldom shied away from spearheading consumer privacy, often butting heads with law enforcement and federal officials in the process.

As the year comes to a close, the tech giant is forging on. The company announced last week that it would be rolling out end-to-end encryption for all opted-in iCloud backups as a part of its Advanced Data Protection terms. Only Apple’s Mail, Contacts and Calendar systems will be excluded from the new policy.

What’s more, Apple will not hold the encryption keys to this data. The policy goes as far as to state: “If you lose access to your account, only you can recover this data, using your device passcode or password, recovery contact, or recovery key.”

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