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Apple to be granted access to its Privacy case in the UK

The iPhone maker has been battling demands from the UK’s Home Office to create a back door to its cloud systems that hold private user data.Apple said in February it could no longer offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP)  its most sophisticated security system  to customers in the UK after receiving the request.The Investigatory Powers Tribunal rejected a request on Monday from the UK government to keep all the details of Apple’s legal challenge private.The ruling from the independent judicial body strikes a blow to the UK government, which first issued Apple with a “technical capability notice” in January. It cited the Investigatory Powers Act introduced in 2016 to justify access to encrypted user data. DO you think that tech companies should be severely punished so that they can respect basic human rights ans freedoms ?

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