UK’s demand for Apple backdoor should not be heard in secret, says court

[Kaz]

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The U.K. government has lost its bid to keep secret the details of a surveillance order it brought against Apple, according to a newly released decision by the U.K. surveillance powers’ court.

The decision, posted on Monday by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in London, means that parts of the legal case will be held in public, despite objections from the U.K. government.

In its ruling on Monday, the tribunal’s judges said they “do not accept that the revelation of the bare details of the case would be damaging to the public interest or prejudicial to national security.” This is the first public acknowledgement that the case exists, though specific details of the case were withheld.

Much of the “bare details” of the case reportedly relate to a U.K. legal demand ordering Apple to let U.K. authorities access the encrypted cloud data of any Apple customer anywhere in the world.

The Washington Post in February published leaked details of the legal demand, revealing the existence of the U.K.’s backdoor demand. Soon after, Apple said it could “no longer” offer Advanced Data Protection, which allows customers to encrypt their files in Apple’s cloud so that nobody other than the user can access them, to users in the United Kingdom.

 

UK's demand for Apple backdoor should not be heard in secret, says court | TechCrunch

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A UK surveillance court said the backdoor order targeting Apple iCloud can be heard partly in public.

 

Here in the states, where free speech is a guaranteed right, we tried an Apple gag but Tim Cook went public about it and refused to break encryption.  It was never settled in court because the FBI found other methods .

Edited April 7 by Kaz
Found a better link (Washington Post) about FBI Bypass