Tulsi Gabbard, the United States’ director of national intelligence, said on Monday that London agreed to drop its requirement for Apple to provide a “back door” that would have allowed access to the protected data of US users and “encroached on our civil liberties”.

Apple Inc. will no longer be forced to provide a so-called backdoor to American users’ data to the UK government, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Monday in a post on X.