A new report is highlighting the secret demands of the UK government and how it wants Apple to produce a secret backdoor to retrieve all content. This has to do with user material uploaded by iCloud users around the globe.
Apple is sure to say no to the demand for obvious privacy reasons and this might give rise to a new stand-off affair between the two.
The news comes thanks to the Washington Post which reported more on the matter including how it was released by Apple in the past. Security officials wished that Apple give rise to the back door to retrieve any and all material belonging to global Apple users.
The UK government reportedly released the order last month and therefore needs blanket capabilities to completely view encrypted content. So it’s not just linked to taking Apple’s assistance for cracking down against certain accounts.
The fact that Apple already is famous for its privacy stance might make things really complicated, experts feel. This is why many don’t see Apple saying yes to the demand by any means. Furthermore, we could witness the rise of a new battle in court that’s quite like that witnessed in the year 2016 between the iPhone maker and the FBI.
In that particular lawsuit, the American government wanted Apple to produce iOS backdoors to assist the FBI break into iPhones belonging to potential shooters. Therefore, Apple said no and the case was dealt with in court. In the end, the FBI did get what they wanted in the form of access through another third party and no assistance from Apple.
The demands by the UK Government seem to be very clueless and totally outrageous. For starters, most data is protected through the likes of E2EE. Hence, Apple doesn’t hold copies of such keys and cannot decrypt them. Users could ensure all data on the Cloud is protected by E2EE by selecting Advanced Data Protection settings.
Secondly, the data that Apple might supply has legal systems in place for different law agencies to go about requesting it. Therefore, all they need to do is go to judges to get court orders. Judges can weigh the pros and cons of the situation and make a judgment based on what the scenario is.
When the judge does say yes to the court order, the iPhone maker will comply to the extent that it feels it can assist. There’s no kind of justification for the government to get uncontrolled access to personal information belonging to different iCloud users around the globe.
From what we can see so far, Apple will say no because it displayed similar behavior in legal cases of the past. We’ve seen the company go down a similar road with the Pensacola case as well as the San Bernardino one.
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Apple is sure to say no to the demand for obvious privacy reasons and this might give rise to a new stand-off affair between the two.
The news comes thanks to the Washington Post which reported more on the matter including how it was released by Apple in the past. Security officials wished that Apple give rise to the back door to retrieve any and all material belonging to global Apple users.
The UK government reportedly released the order last month and therefore needs blanket capabilities to completely view encrypted content. So it’s not just linked to taking Apple’s assistance for cracking down against certain accounts.
The fact that Apple already is famous for its privacy stance might make things really complicated, experts feel. This is why many don’t see Apple saying yes to the demand by any means. Furthermore, we could witness the rise of a new battle in court that’s quite like that witnessed in the year 2016 between the iPhone maker and the FBI.
In that particular lawsuit, the American government wanted Apple to produce iOS backdoors to assist the FBI break into iPhones belonging to potential shooters. Therefore, Apple said no and the case was dealt with in court. In the end, the FBI did get what they wanted in the form of access through another third party and no assistance from Apple.
The demands by the UK Government seem to be very clueless and totally outrageous. For starters, most data is protected through the likes of E2EE. Hence, Apple doesn’t hold copies of such keys and cannot decrypt them. Users could ensure all data on the Cloud is protected by E2EE by selecting Advanced Data Protection settings.
Secondly, the data that Apple might supply has legal systems in place for different law agencies to go about requesting it. Therefore, all they need to do is go to judges to get court orders. Judges can weigh the pros and cons of the situation and make a judgment based on what the scenario is.
When the judge does say yes to the court order, the iPhone maker will comply to the extent that it feels it can assist. There’s no kind of justification for the government to get uncontrolled access to personal information belonging to different iCloud users around the globe.
From what we can see so far, Apple will say no because it displayed similar behavior in legal cases of the past. We’ve seen the company go down a similar road with the Pensacola case as well as the San Bernardino one.
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