Apple defends itself against British surveillance order

Apple legally defends itself against the secret arrangement of the British government to incorporate a back door into the iCloud. This reports the Financial Times (FT), citing initiated. Accordingly, Apple submitted a complaint against the secret command at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. The command stipulates Apple to create technical prerequisites for being able to issue encrypted content from backups and other data of all users worldwide at the request of the authorities in the United Kingdom.

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There are no official confirmations for Apple's resistance. According to British law, Apple must not talk about the monitoring regulations called “Technical Capability Notice”. As a result, the group must not say whether it has taken an appeal because this would confirm the existence of the secret command. The British Ministry of the Interior doesn't talk about it anyway.

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal is also located at this ministry. The committee describes itself as an independent facility. It decides on complaints about possibly legal violations when using secret investigation or monitoring methods by the United Kingdom authorities.

Apple switched off ADP in Great Britain

Apple emphasizes according to FTnever to have installed a back door and never to do it. The company tries to pull itself out of the affair by taking the Advanced Data Protection (ADP) additional service in the United Kingdom. This weakens the encryption, but Apple thinks that Apple does not have to install a back door in a service that is not offered in the country.

However, the British government does not want to be satisfied because it also wants to spy on foreign Apple users. Apple backups could be particularly attractive to Big Brothers because they often contain key for other encrypted data storage. US President Donald Trump has annoyed the British secret order to Apple. This “knows China,” Trump told the British Political Magazine The Spectator in an interview. The United States wants data to be excluded from British access.