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Apple asks tribunal to make the Home Office admit secret iPhone backdoor order

Apple asks tribunal to make the Home Office admit secret iPhone backdoor order

Apple switched off its highest iCloud security for British users rather than build the requested access. The company and two rights groups told a hearing on Thursday that gagging rules keeping the demand secret are farcical. Lawyers for Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, warned the UK surveillance tribunal that ending this silence would damage anti-terror operations.

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