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The encryption is to protect data from snooping by the cloud provider Apple hosts the chunks on, not provide end-to-end privacy/anonymity to users from courts or Apple itself. Apple has and WILL comply with subpoena's to gain access to the contents of an iCloud account (sans Keychain where Apple has literally no way of decrypting the data themselves), as such you should never assume data in iCloud is safe from a DA or prosecutor.


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