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

According to the recently published decision by the UK Surveillance Power’s Court, the UK government has lost its bid to keep the surveillance orders against Apple secret.

Decide, Post on Monday The investigating power tribunal in London will be held in public, despite the UK government objections.

The tribunal judges in his verdict on Monday said that they did not accept that the empty details of the case would be superstitious for public interest or national protection. ” This is the first public recognition that the case exists, though the specific details of the case were prevented.

Most of the “empty details” in the case are related to the UK legal claim that allows the UK authorities to access the encrypted cloud data to any Apple customer in the world.

Washington Post In February, the details of the legal claims were published by the existence of the UK demanding the back of the UK. Soon, Apple said that it couldn’t offer “no” Advanced data protectionWhich allows customers to encrypt their files in the cloud of Apple so that no one other than the user can access them, to UK users.

Both the Apple or Home Office, which started the UK government, has not yet commented on certain legal cases as it remains subject to the United Kingdom National Protection Rules, To prevent the existence of the caseThe

After the order, the Apple investigating power tribunal was reported to have applied for the order. The UK government responded to the court that national protection would be damaged if the nature of the case was publicly published.

PrivacyAy NewspaperAy Bilateral partyAnd Senior detective officers In the Trump administration, everyone has called for transparency in the vicinity of legal hearing.

When contacted by TechCrunch, a spokesman for the UK home office did not comment. An Apple spokesperson did not immediately return any request for the comment.

Apple had previously told TechCrunch that the company had “never created a backdoor or master key” on any of its products or services and “never will.”