Apple Inc.’s feature to enable end-to-end encryption for user iCloud accounts has come under fire in the UK, where government officials want the company to disable it and build a backdoor that lets them access data.

The U.K. rule essentially demands that all data that Apple stores for its cloud services be retrievable not just by Apple, but by the U.K. government—no longer requiring a legal process to request that Apple provide targeted data—and for this to apply to every Apple user in the world.