Apple Advanced Data Protection

“Even with ADP on, it uploads the unique hashes of the PLAINTEXT of every photo to Apple”

“Incremental, improved privacy offered by apple over something like Windows is a significant improvement for most people.”

“It should be possible to force your messages to be excluded from backup even by recipients. Otherwise it's just for show”

“That's why ADP exists, so that those who want to make a different tradeoff can do so.”

“UK customers have their e2ee secrets exposed under common use cases, without requiring a passcode”

“actively prompt British users via a pop-up to enable ADP to protect themselves from the government”

“encrypts it so Apple can give them the data, but they don't have the keys to decrypt it”

“Apple ADP is true e2e encrypted bookmarks, history and so on.”

“they would end-to-end encrypt iCloud backups by default and not just when ADP is enabled, which only a small subset of users do”

“Apple kept it for existing users but stopped offering it to new users. So new users are vulnerable.”

“No other large data providers really provide anything equivalent to ADP’s E2EE protection”

“Apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK”

“You can enable ADP for E2E encrypted backups”

“it's probable not going to help you much, because the people you are communicating with likely didn't”

“I use it and so does everyone in my immediate family and we're not in the UK.”

“unless BOTH sides are using it, your iMessage conversations are all readable by Apple”

“The Apple story isn’t too bad if you can deal with the limitations of advanced data protection.”

“I wouldn't underestimate iCloud with advanced data protection, it is arguably the most comprehensive and affordable e2ee cloud plan available.”

“They recently started requiring you to set a safety person instead of just giving you a code to write down”

“ICE cannot be granted access once you do unless you yourself give them that access.”

“at that point, Apple literally does not have the keys to your end-to-end encrypted data and cannot read or disclose it.”

“I've been running ADP for over a year now, and so far I haven't noticed any problems.”

“ADP doesn't break anything for me.”

“ADP requires changing some settings on-device, and (in some cases I've heard) calling Apple to disable.”

“ADP is designed not just for encrypted backups, but to harden the ecosystem for people who may be under the greatest threat.”

“Enabling ADP breaks all kinds of things in Apple's ecosystem subtly with incredibly arcane errors.”

“they are overwhelmingly un likely to have proactively enabled the non-default "Advanced Data Protection" feature.”

“You can enable Advanced Data Protection to address that issue with iMessages.”

“Closing that backdoor is possible for the consumer, by enabling ADP (advanced data protection) on your device.”

“users aren't informed that block-level metadata is retained and that this metadata can leak information about content despite E2EE”

“it was very widely publicized in the past couple of weeks that Apple has removed Advanced Data Protection for users in the UK”

“The following information may be available from iCloud if a user has enabled Advanced Data Protection for iCloud”

“for anyone concerned about privacy they can use Advanced Data Protection which encrypts all their data and prevents Apple from reading it”

“check out iCloud Advanced Data Protection for similar protections over the rest of your iCloud data”

“ADP allows users to store data with e2e encryption.”

“Doesn't work if you have Advanced Data Protection (end to end encryption) enabled.”

“Apple offers true E2E encryption for photos while Google doesn't”

“they have been offering a superior E2EE cloud storage service that will soon be denied to UK residents”

“they shouldn't compromise their service for everyone on the globe”

“if you have the -banned in the UK- ADP on as far as people know it’s not compromised”