We live in dangerous times. The threat landscape has never been worse, fueled by AI and a forensic industry exploiting security vulnerabilities at a rate we have not seen before. And it’s against this backdrop that Apple’s has confirmed a security warning for tens of millions of users, which EFF describes as “an emergency for us all."

Apple has removed end to end encryption for iCloud backups and other data in the U.K. following demands that asked the company to provide the government with unreasonable levels of control.