- Apple’s call against the British government to hear secretly
- The technology giant fights a request for the construction of a rear door in its encryption
- We interviewed Techradar users for their thoughts – here is what you said
It probably seems that Apple’s legal appeal against the British government will be heard during a secret hearing at the High Court, reports the BBC, following Apple’s promise to “never build a rear door”.
Apple recently withdrawn its end -to -end encryption service, Advanced Data Protection (ADP) of British devices following an alleged demand from the British government to integrate a stolen door into encryption, which would allow access to law enforcement organizations.
While we are waiting for the result of the attraction, we have asked our Techradar readers their thoughts via our WhatsApp channel (if you are interested, you can join here) – and the results could surprise you …
The results are in
When asked: “Wish your government to have access” to private encrypted data, our readers voted massively in favor of Apple’s decision, 67% choosing the option “My data is private – I would not want my government to have access”.
A small number of our readers (8%) said they had no problem with their government with a main key to their encryption, choosing the option: “I don’t care because I have nothing to hide” – but a quarter of the respondents believed that the police should only have access in extreme circumstances.
The American director of national intelligence called the request for “clear and obvious violation of the privacy of the United States and civil liberties”, because the demand would have extraterritorial powers – aroused a “serious concern” not only for privacy, but to fear that this “opens up a serious vulnerability to the exploitation of the Cyber by opponents”.
The appeal of the technology giant should be taken into account by the court of investigation powers, which is an independent court with the power to investigate complaints against the intelligence services of the United Kingdom.
“There is no easy response to this enigma,” said Matt Aldridge, principal consultant for main solutions at OpenText Cybersecurity.
“Either a system has an end -to -end encryption” which does not trust anyone “, or it does not do so, there are no transitional houses here, so Apple adopts a pragmatic approach by removing service for British users, rather than putting a stolen door effectively in their systems that could have an impact on the confidentiality of their more than a billion other users in the world.”
