The UK government has lost its attempt to keep the details of the surveillance order it brought against Apple, according to a recently liberated ruling by the United Kingdom Surveillance Court.
The decision, Posted Monday The court of investigative powers in London means that parts of the legal case will be held public, despite objections from the UK government.
In his ruling on Monday, court judges stated that “they do not accept that the disclosure of the naked details of the case would be detrimental to the public interest or the detrimental to national security”. This is the first public recognition that there is a case, although specific details of the case were withheld.
Much of the “naked details” of the case are related to a UK legal claim that orders Apple to let the United Kingdom authorities have access to encrypted cloud data for any Apple customer anywhere in the world.
The Washington Post In February, he published details of the legal requirement, revealing the existence of demand in the UK backdoor. Shortly afterwards, Apple said it could no longer provide advanced data protection, which allows customers to encrypt their files in the Apple cloud, so that no one other than the user can access them, users in the United Kingdom.
Neither Apple nor the Ministry of the Interior, which began demanding the demand on behalf of the United Kingdom’s government, has so far commented on this legal case as it remains subject to UK national security rules, even preventing the existence of its own case.
After the order, Apple appealed to the order to the court of investigative powers. The UK government responded by telling the court that national security would suffer if the nature of the case was made public.
Supporters of privacy and rightsa News coalitiona bilateral group of US legislators and Senior Information Officers In Trump’s administration, everyone has asked for transparency around legal hearing.
When he came into contact with TechCrunch, a UK interior ministry spokesman did not comment. An Apple spokesman did not immediately return a request for comments.
Apple previously told TechCrunch that the company “has never built a backdoor or master key” on any of its products or services and “never will.”
