The Secret Order of the United Kingdom Government to Apple demanded at the rear door the end -to -end encrypted version of its Icloud storage service has now been questioned by two civil rights groups, Liberty and Privacy International, which filed complaints on Thursday. They called the order of “unacceptable and disproportionate” and warned about “global consequences”, since it is believed that the access order extends to users who are not from the United Kingdom.
The couple, along with two appointed individuals, the executive director of Ingracy International, Gus Hosein and the lawyer of civil liberties, Ben Wizner, have instructed the law firm Leigh Day to challenge the Secretary of the Interior
Yvette Cooper’s decision to serve Apple with a so -called Technical Capacity Notice (TCN) under the Law of Research Powers (IPA). The existence of the secret order only arose through Press reports last month.
“International privacy and freedom fear that this TCN, or similar TCN in the future, could be used to undermine end -to -end encryption for the protection of privacy and free expression,” they write in a press release.
Apple has already presented A legal challenge To the TCN, and its appeal must be heard by the Court of Investigation Powers (IPT), the body that supervises complaints against the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom. Both civil rights groups, Hosein and Wizner argue that they are direct victims of the Government’s TCN decision and are asked to join Apple’s complaints.
They are also asking that the case be heard in public, instead of behind closed doors, joining Previous calls from privacy rights groups. It is believed that the IPT audience is scheduled for today, Friday, March 14.