Representatives of ten news organizations in the United Kingdom spent on Friday a videos of a secret court pending a “unprecedented” appeal about accessing the data of the Apple users taking place at home.
They say it is “obscene” and “ridiculous” that the call, about the ability of the UK government to access the encrypted data of Apple clients under the so -called “Snooopers”, secretly despite the “overwhelming” public interest and public coverage.
Apple Apple Approximate Court, which supervises the government’s monitoring activity, after the Ministry of Interior issued a technical notice of compliance (TCN) requires the technology giant to hand over access to its most user data.
Governments and law enforcement can ask the Apple Decrypt Files held in ICLOUD. However, in 2022, the “Advance Data Protection” feature (ADP) has provided optional on its devices that allow users to run a comprehensive encryption that the company itself cannot access.
Washington Post It was mentioned in February The government has served Apple with TCN, which it must be issued under the law is confidential, and Apple later has Abandoning the safety feature completely In the UK instead of creating the back door.
Apple was appealed on Friday in the closed court, while journalists, activists and lawyers waited outside the room to present representations about the reason for hearing it in public places.
“No information was ever provided by IPT today and we were disappointed because we did not invite us to submit the press case to open sessions before the court,” said Bill Godwin, the investigative editor at COMPUTLY WeEKLY. “We hope that the court will allow us to present representations at a later time.”
Computer Weekly is one of the news institutions that join the application to open the appeal, along with the associated newspapers, the BBC, the Financial Times group, Guardian News and Media, News Group Newspapers, Sky News, and Telegraph Media Group and Times Media.
The government’s attempt to break the coding of apple threatens the sources of journalists
Godwin told Al -Sahafa newspaper that “there is no reason for not talking about it in the open court.”
“It is publicly known. TCN has been widely leaked … Return to Spycatcher Once the secret comes out, there is no use in using the law, it is outside. There is no use of saying that you cannot confirm or deny when everyone knows, in fact, what happened. “
Godwin has argued that not only TCN is a matter of general knowledge, but deliberations about whether the issue of a public interest is.
“Once the encryption is broken, the doors they create cannot be used by the two goods, by law enforcement in the United Kingdom, for example,” he said. “It can be exploited by hostile governments or Internet criminals.”
He added that the government’s access to encrypted data should be of special importance for reporters.
“If you are a journalist and you are using the Apple Apple service to give yourself additional safety – if you are in the United Kingdom, you will not be able to do this. If you are outside, you can still use it, but TCN allows the UK government to access iCloud data even if you are not a UK citizen.
“So if the request is carried out, this will affect the security and privacy of people who are abroad … of course, if you are a journalist, you start anxiety, if you have obtained a sensitive source material, if you are using ADP to protect it, you will no longer be able to ensure that he is protected.”
“The effects of TCN were” enormous “.
She said: “Carrying out their functions, journalists need to ensure the source protection, and if the encryption is broken from the end to the end, it becomes very difficult for journalists to have any kind of indication that they are able to protect their sources.”
But she added: “It is not only Apple.
Vincent said that Big Brother Watch was eventually a government campaign to cancel the matter, “which could not be issued in the first place.”
“We have indicated several times to the fact that the government has already targeted suitable powers usually to be able to reach the things they need, and because these collective monitoring powers are now present under the investigation powers law that does not mean that they must be used, and it is certain that it should not be the first asylum issue like this.”
[Read more: High Court judges dismiss ‘Snoopers’ Charter’ challenge by human rights group]
Vincent said the TCN version was an “unprecedented step for democracy.”
“He certainly puts the UK in a club that we should not want to be at the international level. And the danger, when the countries that are believed to be holding holders do this type of things, is that it will be used as an excuse for more terrible behavior by more authoritarian cases.”
Vincent said that the implementation of the appeal was “truly impressive. This issue is an overwhelming majority in the public interest – it will affect everyone’s privacy rights.
It is already effective in the eyes of the audience. It seems absurd to continue to pretend to be a secret issue when it is not.
“What raises it to all of us is that it can affect us without any knowledge of the arguments that are presented today, and the considerations that the court can take, and then, again, with a precedent that you will determine. So we believe that it must be opened immediately.”
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