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UK Effort To Keep Apple Encryption Fight Secret Is Blocked
A court has blocked a British government attempt to keep secret a legal case over its demand to access Apple user data in a victory for privacy advocates. From a report: The UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal, a special court that handles cases related to government surveillance, said the authorities'...
A court has blocked a British government attempt to keep secret a legal case over its demand to access Apple user data in a victory for privacy advocates. From a report: The UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal, a special court that handles cases related to government surveillance, said the authorities' efforts were a "fundamental interference with the principle of open justice" in a ruling issued on Monday. The development comes after it emerged in January that the British government had served Apple with a demand to circumvent encryption that the company uses to secure user data stored in its cloud services.
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