UK Effort To Keep Apple Encryption Fight Secret Is Blocked (msn.com) 15
A court has blocked a British government attempt to keep secret a legal case over its demand to access Apple user data. 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.
Apple challenged the request, while taking the unprecedented step of removing its advanced data protection feature for its British users. The government had sought to keep details about the demand -- and Apple's challenge of it -- from being publicly disclosed. Apple has regularly clashed with governments over encryption features that can make it difficult for law enforcement to access devices produced by the company. The world's most valuable company last year criticized UK surveillance powers as "unprecedented overreach" by the government.
Apple challenged the request, while taking the unprecedented step of removing its advanced data protection feature for its British users. The government had sought to keep details about the demand -- and Apple's challenge of it -- from being publicly disclosed. Apple has regularly clashed with governments over encryption features that can make it difficult for law enforcement to access devices produced by the company. The world's most valuable company last year criticized UK surveillance powers as "unprecedented overreach" by the government.
"Clashed with governments over encryption"? (Score:1)
Oh, but not China's government! They pick their fights via cost/benefit ratios like any other business.
Delta (Score:4, Insightful)
Oh, but not China's government!
What's the mechanism for fighting the constitutionality of a law in Chinese courts?
I'll give you a hint before you go looking, there isn't much of one.
Re:Delta (Score:4, Interesting)
Court (Score:3)
Apple has defeated the FBI's requests to decrypt phones multiple times in court, so at least there's that
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They have no chance whatsoever of prevailing with China. The UK isn't - yet - willing to admit out loud that they're a fascist police state, so Apple might be able to manipulate them into being sensible.
Headline could use punctuation (Score:3)
Have to read TFS to understand.
Re:Headline could use punctuation (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Headline could use punctuation (Score:5, Funny)
Welcome to Orwell's 1984 (Score:5, Insightful)
“A case where a borough council used RIPA to conduct surveillance on a family amid concerns that the mother had lied on a school admissions form
“Notorious incidents include the surreptitious planting of a microchip [localgover...wyer.co.uk] within a resident’s bin, purportedly in order to show that the resident was putting the bin out on the wrong days, and the use of secret cameras to identify unlawful dog fouling.”
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Fascism is as fascism does (Score:5, Insightful)
A country not wanting to be transparent about this is evil.
Sheesh, the world is turning fascist at a concerning rate.
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If you lie to the government, you get into big trouble, but if the government lies to you, it's all good? We teach people
UK thinks they can regulate US companies (Score:4, Insightful)
https://x.com/cricketwyvern/st... [x.com]
I think they're in for a surprise.