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Apple announces plans to encrypt iCloud backups

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  • Apple announced on Wednesday that it plans to encrypt additional iCloud data on its servers, including full backups, photos and notes.

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Apple announced on Wednesday that it plans to allow users to encrypt additional kinds of iCloud data on its servers, including full backups, photos and notes.

The feature, called Advanced Data Protection, will prevent Apple from seeing the contents of some of the most sensitive user data stored on its servers, and will make it impossible for Apple to provide the content of an encrypted backup to law enforcement.

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