Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud.

The government wants access to not just the data of iCloud users in the UK, but from around the world, according to a report.

Britain has ordered Apple to give it unprecedentedly broad access to encrypted user data stored on Apple's data cloud, the Washington Post newspaper reported on Friday.

Officials demanded “blanket” access to end-to-end encrypted files uploaded to its cloud by any user worldwide, according to the report, rather than asking for narrow access to specific Apple accounts.

The British government has secretly demanded that Apple give it blanket access to all encrypted user content uploaded to the cloud, reports

The U.K.’s Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has reportedly demanded that Apple introduce a backdoor in iCloud encryption. To maintain the cloud service’s security, Apple may