UK loses bid to keep Apple appeal against demand for iPhone 'backdoor' a secret

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Chief Executive of Apple, Tim Cook gives a thumb's up during a tour the Apple Headquarters on December 12, 2024 in London, England. Chris Jackson | Getty Images Apple has triumphed over an effort from the U.K. government to keep details secret of its appeal against an order to create a "backdoor" to iPhone users' data. The U.K.'s Investigatory Powers Tribunal on Monday published a ruling dismissing the government's attempt to prevent details from a hearing on the appeal from being made public. The government had tried to keep the information secret on the grounds it posed risks to national security. Judges Rabinder Singh and Judge Jeremy Johnson said in their ruling that the U.K. government's request to keep details of the hearing private "would be the most fundamental interference with the principle of open justice." "It would have been a truly extraordinary step to conduct a hearing entirely in secret without any ... Read full article.