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Apple takes legal action in UK data privacy row

The tech giant is appealing a government order for access to customers' private data, the BBC understands.

Apple is taking legal action to try to overturn a demand made by the UK government to view its customers' private data if required. It is the latest development in an unprecedented row between one of the world's biggest tech firms and the UK government over data privacy. She described it in a letter as an "egregious violation" of US citizens' rights to privacy and that she intended to find out whether it breached the terms of a legal data agreement between the US and the UK.

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