This is a perfect example for #Apple's double-speak; on the one hand Apple publicly PR-stunt-fights surveillance and portraits itself as your very own privacy guardian; on the other hand it works together with the USA government just like any other major corporation on this planet. Keep this in mind talking about #Huawei & China next time... your hypocrisy might make you pay a premium for something that does deliver the protection it moralizes.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive/exclusive-apple-dropped-plan-for-encrypting-backups-after-fbi-complained-sources-idUSKBN1ZK1CT

Exclusive: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources

Apple Inc <AAPL.O> dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices in the company's iCloud service after the FBI complained that the move would harm investigations, six sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.