Thanks for sending. Good for Apple.
Evan
On 4/8/2025 12:57 AM, VIPhone wrote:
Monday, April 7, 2025
The UK can’t keep its encryption battle with Apple secret, court says
The UK won’t be able to keep its fight with Apple over end-to-end
encryption secret after all. As reported by the BBC, tribunal judges
on Monday rejected the government’s request to keep details of the
battle private, saying: “It would have been a truly extraordinary step
to conduct a hearing entirely in secret without any public revelation
of the fact that a hearing was taking place.”
The story started in February, when the UK government secretly ordered
Apple to create a backdoor into iCloud encryption. Instead of
complying with that order, Apple chose to remove its Advanced Data
Protection feature in the UK. Other categories of iCloud data,
however, remain end-to-end encrypted, such as passwords, health data,
payment information, iMessage, and FaceTime. Throughout all of this,
Apple has been unable to publicly address the UK’s demands under the
rule of the law.
Apple took to the courts to file a complaint to the Powers Tribunal,
seeking to challenge the UK’s order that it break end-to-end
encryption. The hearing began in secret last month, despite pressure
to make the proceedings public.
The government argued that it would “damage national security if the
nature of the legal action” if the details were made public. The BBC
now reports that this argument didn’t hold up to scrutiny:
In a ruling published on Monday morning, the tribunal judges rejected
that request – pointing to the extensive media reporting of the row
and highlighting the legal principle of open justice.”
It would have been a truly extraordinary step to conduct a hearing
entirely in secret without any public revelation of the fact that a
hearing was taking place,” it states.
For the reasons that are set out in our private judgement, we do not
accept that the revelation of the bare details of the case would be
damaging to the public interest or prejudicial to national security,”
it later adds.
We should now expect more details of the battle to emerge to the public.
9to5Mac’s Take:
There’s some irony in the UK trying to keep its encryption battle with
Apple private while simultaneously fighting that iPhone users
shouldn’t be able to keep the contents of their iPhone private.
Original Article at:
https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/07/apple-uk-encryption-must-be-public/
--
The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone
list.
If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list,
or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact
the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.
Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at:
[email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at
[email protected]
The archives for this list can be searched at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "VIPhone" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send
an email to [email protected].
To view this discussion visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/cb3892c8-ae0f-45db-b5c3-d63f74fb0f2dn%40googlegroups.com
<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/cb3892c8-ae0f-45db-b5c3-d63f74fb0f2dn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.
--
The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.
If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you
feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or
moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.
Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at:
[email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at
[email protected]
The archives for this list can be searched at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To view this discussion visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/2e600aaf-6ef0-4f55-bafc-2ac0c4699647%40dslextreme.com.
