The UK government is engaged in a legal dispute with Apple over access to information secured by Apple's Advanced Data Protection (ADP) system. Apple denies access to user data and refuses to create a backdoor for government inquiries, fearing misuse. The UK Home Office argued that keeping details private is crucial for national security, but the Investigatory Powers Tribunal rejected this request, prioritizing transparency and acknowledging broad media coverage of the issue. The tribunal stressed the importance of open justice, ruling that revealing case details would not harm public interest or national security.
The tribunal judges rejected the Home Office's request for secrecy, stressing that the principle of open justice was paramount, stating, 'It would have been a truly extraordinary step to conduct a hearing entirely in secret without any public revelation of the fact that a hearing was taking place.'
The judges highlighted that revealing the bare details of the case would not be damaging to the public interest or national security, which they viewed as pivotal in justifying their decision.
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