Apple said Friday it will stop offering an advanced data security option for British users after the government reportedly demanded that the company provide backdoor access for any data those users have stored in the cloud.

The reported order from Britain's Home Office is further proof that governments pose a greater privacy risk than corporations.

Apple disabled its most secure data storage offering for new customers in the United Kingdom rather than comply with a secret government order.

Law enforcement in the country was pressuring the company to create a tool that would act like a back door into customers’ data.