Claims it is imperative that the UK's technical demands of Apple are open to analysis.
The UK has been urged by U.S. lawmakers and privacy advocates to publicly air its hearing with Apple regarding its supposed technical capability notice for the creation of an iCloud encryption backdoor.
"Given the significant technical complexity of this issue, as well as the important national security harms that will result from weakening cybersecurity defences, it is imperative that the UK's technical demands of Apple – and of any other US companies – be subjected to robust, public analysis and debate by cybersecurity experts," said the lawmakers.
Similar sentiments have also been expressed by the Open Rights Group, Index on Censorship, and Big Brother Watch in another letter to Singh, according to
The Register.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
