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Apple, which federal agents regularly ask for access to user data, is further securing iCloud info. The FBI criticized encryption in comments to WashPo, saying it would curtail criminal investigations. Apple has disclosed that it provides information in response to most government agency requests.

Apple's move to offer improved protections for users' iCloud information, and to make texting more secure, may be...

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