iCloud backups are a treasure chest that Apple hands over to law enforcement more easily than people assume. Just backup to your laptop. If there’s a legal need to access your devices, you’ll have the warrant served to you directly.
Also Tresorit offers end to end encrypted cloud storage. If you’re storing a lot of sensitive documents like ID scans, account statements, medical paperwork, it’s worth a consideration. Then if your iCloud storage has to be handed over, at least you maintain some privacy in those matters.
Seems some of iCloud is end-to-end encrypted.
These features and their data are transmitted and stored in iCloud using end-to-end encryption:
* Apple Card transactions
* Home data
* Health data
* iCloud Keychain
* Maps Favorites, Collections and search history
* Memoji
* Payment information
* QuickType Keyboard learned vocabulary
* Safari History and iCloud Tabs
* Screen Time
* Siri information
* Wi-Fi passwords
* W1 and H1 Bluetooth keys
Things that are not e2e: photos, iMessage, Notes, Mail, Contacts, and others.
I'm wondering, are the Safari cookies e2e encrypted?
It's e2e but the key is also backed up in iCloud. Consider one uncomfortable fact: if you lose your iPhone and forget your iCloud password you can still recover your data.
I wonder if the geolocations on photos themselves are the product Apple are being pressured to maintain. A fairly active phone photographer with geolocation on has a good location history up for grabs.
Also Tresorit offers end to end encrypted cloud storage. If you’re storing a lot of sensitive documents like ID scans, account statements, medical paperwork, it’s worth a consideration. Then if your iCloud storage has to be handed over, at least you maintain some privacy in those matters.