Pressure grows to hold secret Apple privacy hearing in public

Pressure grows to hold secret Apple privacy hearing in public

Civil liberties campaigners have joined US politicians and the BBC in saying Friday's hearing should not be secret.

Apple’s appeal against UK’s secret iCloud backdoor order must be held in public, rights groups urge

Privacy rights groups have called on Apple's legal challenge to a secret U.K. government order asking it to backdoor an end-to-end encrypted (E2EE)

UK to hold secret hearing on Apple's iCloud backdoor refusal

Apple has held firm on not granting backdoor access to users' iCloud data, and the UK continues to try to find a way — just not publicly.

Rights groups demand public hearing on Apple's appeal over the UK's secret iCloud backdoor

As expected, Apple will contest the UK mandate for an iCloud backdoor at tomorrow's secret hearing, a move that rights groups say should be open.

Rights groups call for Apple's closed appeal against the Home Office's encryption-breaching order to be opened to the public - Index on Censorship

Responding to news that Apple will be before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal on Friday, representatives from Big Brother Watch, Index on Censorship, and Open Rights Group have written to President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the Rt Hon Lord Justice Singh, calling for the case to be made public. The letter states that the “case implicates the privacy rights of millions of British citizens who use Apple’s technology, as well as Apple’s…

Calls grow for UK to move secret Apple encryption court hearing to public session

In a joint letter on Thursday to Lord Justice Singh, a collection of British civil liberties groups asked him to use his discretion to open the hearing to the public, arguing that doing so would not prejudice national security.