{"id":1036525,"date":"2026-09-18T08:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036525"},"modified":"2026-09-18T08:12:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:42:55","slug":"uk-silence-over-demand-for-apple-data-access-is-farcical-lawyer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/18\/uk-silence-over-demand-for-apple-data-access-is-farcical-lawyer-says\/","title":{"rendered":"UK silence over demand for Apple data access is farcical, lawyer says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British government&#8217;s refusal to confirm whether it has issued an order to bypass encryption to access customer data held by Apple has become farcical, a lawyer for civil rights groups told a London tribunal on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>In January last year, Britain issued an order, known as a technical capability notice, for what is known as a back door to allow it access to encrypted cloud backups of data of U.S. and British citizens. <\/p>\n<p>That demand was dropped following months of \u200bnegotiations with U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration, but in July Britain issued a second notice that applied just to Apple&#8217;s UK customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British government&#8217;s refusal to confirm whether it has issued an order to bypass encryption to access customer data held by Apple has become farcical, a lawyer for civil rights groups told a London tribunal on Thursday. In January last year, Britain issued an order, known as a technical capability notice, for what is known as a back door to allow it access to encrypted cloud backups of data of U.S. and British citizens. That demand was dropped following months of \u200bnegotiations with U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration, but in July Britain issued a second notice that applied just to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036548,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036525\/revisions\/1036548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}