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US lawmakers urge UK spy court to hold Apple ‘backdoor’ secret hearing in public
U.S. bipartisan lawmakers say the U.K. order gagging Apple from disclosing the demand is unconstitutional.
A group of bipartisan U.S. lawmakers are urging the head of the U.K.’s surveillance court to hold an open hearing into Apple’s anticipated challenge of an alleged secret U.K. government legal demand. Senator Ron Wyden, along with four other federal lawmakers, said in a letter this week to the president of the U.K.’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) that it is “in the public interest” that any hearings about the alleged order are not held in secret. Apple, which is legally barred from disclosing or commenting on the so-called “technical capabilities notice,” reportedly refused and pulled its Advanced Data Protection iCloud data-encryption feature from U.K. customers, rather than comply with the backdoor order.
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