This is already the status quo in the US. The fact that ADP is offered as an option is irrelevant.
This isn't the type of question I normally ask people, so it sounds like you've made a bad guess here and are treating your own assumption as fact. You are incorrect; I have ADP turned on.
> Apple provides the data to the Five Eyes without a warrant.
Source? Or are you assuming here, too?
> The fact that ADP is offered as an option is irrelevant.
Only if you think no one uses it.
followed by
> almost certainly
with zero links. Sure, I'll take your word for it.
No, it’s a feature tucked away in Settings where small, small percentages of users are going to use it.
It’s great that it exists, but let’s listen to life experience. You don’t need to retort “Source! Source!” for things like this. Be our guest, ask everyone in your life and keep a tally.
There may, in fact, be dozens of us.
No one is claiming most people use it. You are claiming no one or essentially no one uses it, which is untrue.
> but let’s listen to life experience
Your life experience is apparently that you don't use ADP, so therefore no one uses ADP. This is not a useful data point.
> You don’t need to retort “Source! Source!”
So... you don't have a source?
> Be our guest, ask everyone in your life and keep a tally.
As I stated in my first response to you, it isn't a question most people ask so I'm not sure why you'd think a few comments later my take on this would change.
So anyone that has a Windows machine that has iCloud sync to their machine can’t use it.
ADP adoption: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/12/05/icloud-advanced...
Lots of things to fault apple about. This likely is not one of them.
These load-bearing assumptions are part of Apple's issue.
Anyone can write a whitepaper, keeping a transparent SBOM is a different level of commitment.
ADP hasn't been available in the UK for some time now.
And there are plenty of UK users of ADP - those who got in before it was banned still have it.
From the article:
> After the U.K. government first issued the TCN in January, Apple was forced to either create a backdoor or block its Advanced Data Protection feature
> the US claimed the U.K. withdrew the demand, but Apple did not re-enable Advanced Data Protection
> The new order provides insight into why: the U.K. was just rewriting it to only apply to British users
> The Financial Times reports that the U.K. is once again demanding that Apple create a backdoor into its encrypted backup services.
If you read further, or click the FT link, you'll see the UK is now demanding access to encrypted iPhone backups.
ADP is not relevant beyond the history; the UK is not doing anything with ADP but I understand the confusion if you don't know that "iPhone iCloud backup" is a separate service for iPhones.