- Apple’s appeal against the British government to be heard in secret
- The technological giant is fighting a request to build a back door in its encryption
- We find PakGazette users for their thoughts, this is what you said
It seems that Apple’s legal appeal against the United Kingdom’s government is likely to be heard at a secret hearing in the Superior Court, reports the BBC, after Apple’s promise of “never building a rear door.”
Apple recently withdrew its end -to -end encryption service, Advanced Data Protection (ADP) of the United Kingdom devices after an alleged request from the British government to build a rear door in the encryption, which would allow access to the agencies of application of the law.
While we wait for the result of the appeal, we ask our readers to PakGazette their thoughts through our WhatsApp channel (if interested, can join here), and the results may surprise it …
The results are in
When asked: “Do you want your government to have access” to private data, our readers voted overwhelmingly in favor of Apple’s decision, with 67% choosing the option “My data is private? I don’t want my government to have access.”
A small number of our readers (8%) said they had no problem that their government had a master key for their encryption, choosing the option: “I would not mind since I have nothing to hide”, but a quarter of the respondents felt that the police should have access only in extreme circumstances.
The United States National Intelligence Director described the application as a “clear and atrocious violation of privacy and civil liberties of Americans”, since the application would have extraterritorial powers, which caused a “serious concern” not only for privacy, but for fear that this “would open a serious vulnerability for cyber exploitation by adverse actors.”
The appeal of the technological giant will be considered by the Court of Investigation Powers, which is an independent court with the power to investigate claims against the intelligence services of the United Kingdom.
“There is no easy response to this enigma,” said Matt Aldridge, senior consultant of OpenText Cybersecurity.
“Or a system has end -to -end encryption” does not trust anyone “or not, there are no half -way houses, so Apple is adopting a pragmatic approach by eliminating the service for users of the United Kingdom, instead of effectively placing a rear door in their systems that could affect the privacy of its more than one billion users throughout the world.”
