Today, October 11, the American multinational technology company Apple announced that it has dropped the new Safari bookmark end-to-end encryption. Apple dropped the end-to-end encryption for bookmarks in Safari, which was supposedly introduced less than two weeks ago.
Recall that Apple’s support documentation was updated in early October 2021, indicating that Safari bookmarks had been modified to feature the same end-to-end encryption as Apple Card transactions and even Emoji.
This has since been deleted from the same documentation, and bookmarks are now identified as encrypted only “in transit and on server.”
However, at the initial stage, Apple noted that there are still a few features that are currently not end-to-end encrypted such as backup, Calendars, Contacts, iCloud drives, Notes, Photos, Reminders, Siri Shortcuts, Voice Memos, and Wallet passes.
Apple did not make any announcements about the changes. As a result, it’s conceivable that the documentation was updated incorrectly and has since been fixed. Because iCloud synced bookmarks between a user’s devices, end-to-end encryption would have increased security. According to Apple’s documentation, end-to-end encryption provides “the highest level of data protection.”
Like all big tech businesses, Apple has been under constant pressure to abandon end-to-end encryption and provide governments and law enforcement complete access to all data.
Safari is an Apple graphical web browser that is based mostly on open-source software assets, most notably WebKit. It first appeared in Mac OS X Panther in 2003 and was later added to the iPhone and iPod Touch in 2007 with iPhone OS.
Since January 2021, the American multinational technology company has been the world’s largest technology and world’s most valuable company.
