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Apple launches legal challenge to UK ‘back door’ order (www.ft.com)

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Apple is stepping up its fight with the British government over a demand to create a “back door” in its most secure cloud storage systems, by filing a legal complaint that it hopes will overturn the order.

The iPhone maker has made its appeal to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, an independent judicial body that examines complaints against the UK security services, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Silicon Valley company’s legal challenge is believed to be the first time that provisions in the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act allowing UK authorities to break encryption have been tested before the court. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal will consider whether the UK’s notice to Apple was lawful and, if not, could order it to be quashed.

The case could be heard as soon as this month, although it is unclear whether there will be any public disclosure of the hearing. The government is likely to argue the case should be restricted on national security grounds.

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[–] theo 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Tulsi Gabbard, US director of national intelligence, said tapping Americans’ data would be an “egregious violation” of privacy that risked breaching the two countries’ data agreement.

A bit rich coming from America after what we found out after the Snowden whistleblowing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

A bit rich coming from America after what we found out after the Snowden whistleblowing.

and that was what, 12 years ago? I dread to think what sort of stuff they're upto these days

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Rare apple W

[–] JiveTurkey 5 points 4 days ago

Not really a W. Apples privacy circle jerk comes off as pretty superficial and I have no doubt that they have ways of giving governments access to things like iMessage. Since none of it is open source you just have to take their word for it.