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UK government still seeking access to Apple customers’ cloud data

An iPhone displayed in an Apple store.
Apple has so far insisted it will protect customers’ data and won’t give backdoor access to anyone. Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

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to give it access to customers’s cloud data, despite recent claims by senior US officials that the demand had been withdrawn.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,