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Title: UK Effort To Keep Apple Encryption Fight Secret Is Blocked

Link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/04/07/144...

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.

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