Apple users in the UK can no longer access one of the company's most advanced data protection tools, reports Bloomberg. The feature, Advanced Data Protection, allows iPhone users to add optional end-to-end encryption to a variety of iCloud data.

Apple said, “We are gravely disappointed that protections provided by ADP won't be available to our customers in UK given the continuing rise of data breaches and other threats to customer privacy.

Security officials argue that encryption hinders criminal investigations, while tech firms defend it as essential to user privacy.