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US lawmakers are urging a UK court to lift the secrecy around UK government moves to require Apple to create a “back door” into its end-to-end encrypted data storage, ahead of a court hearing next week.
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In a letter to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, US Democratic senator, Ron Wyden, and Republican Warren Davidson, warned that the UK’s unprecedented secrecy is needlessly straining the relations between the two countries. The letter comes ahead of a case management hearing by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that will consider a new complaint by Apple against the Home Office over a secret order to give the UK access to end-to-end encrypted messages, photographs and data stored on Apple’s iCloud service.
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