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.

Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard said the British government’s order “would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens.”

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said that the UK would drop its mandate for Apple to provide an encrypted data "back door."