UK government still seeking access to Apple customers’ cloud data

Latest reports suggest neither side is backing off, and the matter could now be decided in a tribunal hearing in January next year.

The UK government is still asking Apple to give it access to customers’s cloud data, despite recent claims by senior US officials that the demand had been withdrawn.

The FT and a number of other news outlets have reported that the government’s latest demand only applies to Apple’s UK customers,

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