The US director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, announced on social media late Monday evening that Apple will not be required to provide an encryption backdoor in the UK, easing concerns about weakened privacy and security safeguards.

In February, Apple pulled its Advanced Data Protection end-to-end iCloud encryption from British customers' devices after the government requested access to the data. Following the events of the British government pressuring Apple to build a "backdoor" to allow government authorities to access user iCloud data.

Britain has dropped its demand for Apple to provide backdoor access to encrypted user data stored in the cloud. U.S.