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Apple launches legal challenge against UK government demand to access data

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Per The Guardian, Apple is taking the UK government to court over encryption. The tech company filed a challenge at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal against a fresh Home Office demand for back-door access to encrypted iCloud data of British users. This repeats a request the government abandoned just a year earlier.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/03/apple-...

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