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Apple files new U.K. legal challenge over alleged encrypted-data backdoor demand

2026-08-03·newswire-us-stock-214002
Apple files new U.K. legal challenge over alleged encrypted-data backdoor demand.

Apple has filed a new legal challenge against a U.K. government plan that would require the company to create a backdoor for access to encrypted user data, the Financial Times reported, citing court documents. Apple filed a case with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal last month. The dispute concerns the U.K.

government's access to encrypted cloud backups belonging to users in the United Kingdom.

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Apple files new U.K. legal challenge over alleged encrypted-data backdoor demand

Apple has filed a new legal challenge against a U.K. government plan that would require the company to create a backdoor for access to encrypted user data, the Financial Times reported, citing court documents. Apple filed a case with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal last month. The dispute concerns the U.K. government's access to encrypted cloud backups belonging to users in the United Kingdom.

Apple has filed a new legal challenge against a U.K. government plan that would require the company to create a backdoor for access to encrypted user data, the Financial Times reported, citing court documents.

Apple filed a case with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal last month. The dispute concerns the U.K. government's access to encrypted cloud backups belonging to users in the United Kingdom.

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