Apple’s case against Govt ‘snooping’ to be held in public

A judge has ruled that Apple’s legal action against the Government’s request to access users’ encrypted files will be held in public. In February, the Home Office asked Apple to provide access to its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) system, which protects your data with end-to-end encryption. The Government said the Investigatory Powers Act, slammed by critics as the snooper’s charter, gave it the authority to do this. But Apple refused to give ministers a ‘backdoor’ into encrypted files, saying i...