> Apple gave over all information backed up to iCloud.
> As I see it, I should not be using iCloud or any cloud service to back up my iPhone since that Information will be given over to the government if they ask for it.
> Alice
Firstly, if you make a backup to your computer using iTunes, you can set a password and encrypt the backup. Apple will NOT be able to decrypt this, nor, for several years (until a complex-enough quantum computer is available), will anyone else without the password you assign.
Secondly, Apple is talking about increasing security, which (I would hope) includes that of iCloud backups.
It would seem to me to be pretty straightforward for the creation of every AppleID to cause to be created a public and a private key attached to that AppleID — with either both stored on the user's device, or the public key on Apple's servers and the private key only on the device.
Then, when a backup is transmitted to iCloud, it could be encrypted with the user's public key, meaning that it could ONLY be decrypted by that user's private key, which is available ONLY to the user himself.
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