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Court dismisses UK government’s bid to keep details of Apple case private

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The Court has said disclosing bare details of the case does not pose a threat to UK national security.

The UK government has lost a bid to keep the details of an ongoing court battle over data privacy with US tech giant Apple out of the public’s eye.

The UK government had asked Apple in January to give it access to encrypted customer data which is stored on

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