Apple allegedly abandoned plans to implement encrypted iCloud backups after a complaint from the FBI. End-to-end encryption is intended to prevent data being read or secretly modified when it is in transit between the two parties. When Apple spoke privately to the FBI about its work on phone security the following year, the end-to-end encryption plan had been dropped. One former FBI official, who was not present in talks with Apple, told Reuters: 'Outside of that public spat over San Bernardino, Apple gets along with the federal government.' Representatives of the FBI's cyber crime agents held private talks with Apple where they objected to the plan to encrypt iCloud backups.

Source: Daily Mail January 21, 2020 16:29 UTC