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Court document reveals new details of UK demand for access to Apple data

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Hameed Shuja

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Document from The Investigatory Powers Tribunal also shows UK may not have dropped the demand yet, despite reports claiming the opposite.

A new document published by the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has revealed that the UK government asked Apple to give it back-door access to much broader categories of customer data than previously thought.

The document, details of which have been reported by the Financial Times, also raises question

The

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