Apple Inc.’s feature to enable end-to-end encryption for user iCloud accounts has come under fire in the UK, where government officials want the company to disable it and build a backdoor that lets them access data.

Apple has reportedly received a request from the UK government to create a backdoor for accessing users’ encrypted iCloud backups, according to The Washington Post. The secret order, issued last month,

The UK government has ordered Apple to create a backdoor for iCloud backups, giving security officials access to users' encrypted files.