{"id":58252,"date":"2025-03-05T18:47:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T18:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/apple-drags-uk-government-to-court-over-backdoor-order\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T18:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T18:47:03","slug":"apple-drags-uk-government-to-court-over-backdoor-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/apple-drags-uk-government-to-court-over-backdoor-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple drags UK government to court over ‘backdoor’ order"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated<\/span> Apple has reportedly filed a legal complaint with the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) contesting the British government’s order that it must forcibly break the encryption of iCloud data.<\/p>\n

The appeal will be the first of its kind lodged with the IPT, an independent judicial body that oversees<\/a> legal complaints against potential unlawful actions by a public authority or UK intelligence services, according to the Financial Times, which broke the news<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The revelation follows a battle between the iGadgetmaker and the UK’s Home Office, which has long set its sights on Apple’s encrypted cloud-hosted data, arguing it needs a backdoor in order for law enforcement to investigate persons of interest.<\/p>\n

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Things came to a head in January when the Home Office issued Apple with a technical capability notice (TCN) under the Investigatory Powers Act<\/a>, aka the Snooper’s Charter, nearly a year after talk of such an order began.<\/p>\n

Despite being “technical” by name, it’s understood that the notice didn’t include any technical instructions for Apple, just an order to allow a so-called backdoor into its iCloud network which could be used to gather data that’s otherwise typically out of reach of criminal investigators.<\/p>\n