Reuters reports:
Britain has ordered Apple (AAPL.O), to give it unprecedentedly broad access to encrypted user data stored on Apple’s data cloud, the Washington Post newspaper reported on Friday.The UK government’s “technical capability notice” requires blanket access rather than merely assistance to access a specific account, the paper reported, citing unnamed sources.Governments routinely ask technology companies for user data to crack criminal cases, but Britain’s sweeping demand, issued last month, has no known precedent in major democracies, the Post said.
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