A couple of human rights groups experiencing shockingly obsessively intrusive order of the Government of Great Britain on Apple to create a bacdor in his encrypted user dataLike the first reported To Financial timesPrivacy International and Liberty filed a legal appeal to the country's investigative powers (IPT), which is reported, plans to hear Apple's appeal on Friday.
The complaint claims that Apple call to order must be publicly heard. In addition, the task of groups claims that the transition of the government violates the rights to freedom of expression and customer confidentiality, forcing the company to sterilize its product safety.
“The use of the UK secret order to tear safety for people around the world is unacceptable and disproportionate,” said Caroline Wilson Palow, law director of Privacy International. TheftThe field “People around the world rely on through encryption in order to protect themselves from persecution and oppression. No country should have the strength to undermine this protection for everyone. ”
Britain of the media (including BBC, ReutersIN Financial timesIN Keeper And more) they also filed complaints with IPT, claiming that the case should be considered publicly. The same for the Big Brother Watch lawyer organizations, the censorship index and the open rights group.
The order of Great Britain requires Apple to provide the government with access to private user data encrypted due to its “Advanced Data Protection” (ADP) function. Presented in iOS 16.2 in 2022, ADP applies through encryption to icloud data As backups of devices, contents of messages, notes and photographs. Even Apple cannot access him.
Apple Remove the ADP in the UK In response to the order before issuing your own legal call. But since Backdoor will also be applied to users outside the UK, the personal data of any with the Apple account will be vulnerable. Security experts (and common sense) warn that Backdor will unnecessarily subject anyone who has an Apple account, foreign espionage, hackers and competitive countries.
We only know about the UK from -s leakage last monthThis is because it was released within the framework of the country Law on trips on investigative powers 2016which expanded the authority to observe British intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies (earning, UH, The term of tenderness, “Charter Sneper”). The rules also do not allow Apple to comment on or publicly recognize the existence of an order covering confidentiality, or using its appeal to delay compliance. Last month, Apple said: “We have never built a back door or a master key from any of our products or services, and we will never be.”