Lawyer slams UK government’s ‘neither confirm nor deny’ stance on Apple encryption order as farce

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Sep 17, 2026, 5:00 pm171 ptsTrending
A civil-rights lawyer told a London tribunal Thursday that the British government’s refusal to admit whether it has ordered Apple to create a back door into encrypted iCloud backups has become “farcical,” because the demand is already an open secret. Britain dropped an earlier, broader notice after talks with…

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