The Trump administration says that law enforcement organizations in Britain would back off asking the company for a tool to access customers’ data.
Palantir has entered the chat
And what’s the catch? Article is paywalled
It’s hard to know. The article is super brief and mostly is rehashing the context of what happened with Britain and Apple up to this point. This is the only paragraph I could find that seemed like actual new events:
Tulsi Gabbard, the U.S. director of national intelligence, said in a social media post on Monday night that Britain had “agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to provide a ‘back door’ that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and encroached on our civil liberties.”
The article states that Britain will spare Apple from creating a tool to give the government access to cloud data but then the only quote they provide is ambiguous as to whether this is only an exemption for Americans. In the article they state neither Apple nor the UK government commented.
Tl;dr: We don’t know exactly. Might have to find reporting from a better source as this article is super light on facts.
Suspecting that the US got a backdoor and is spying for the UK.