[zikduruqe]

Why would they say to all new users, that they cannot have Advanced Data Protection, whereas older customers can?

Now you have a certain percentage of users with encrypted data, and a certain percentage of users that do not. The UK government will not like that. And now Apple has shown that it will not take a stand for privacy it might have to do it to comply.

[brookst]

Ah, you missed the part where Apple also said existing users will have to turn it off at an unspecified date.