UK Court Rejects Government Secrecy in Apple's Fight Against Backdoor Request.

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• ogmios@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  UK courts did something sane?

  The world really is ending.

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  • Johnnykorn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m confused here, are you for or against your government having access to your personal encrypted information?

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    • Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Big Brother Watch, Open Rights Group and Index on Censorship made a submission to the court, arguing against proceedings taking in place in secret and in favour of open justice. Today, the Tribunal has rejected the Home Office’s application, stating it did not accept “that the revelation of the bare details of the case would be damaging to the public interest or prejudicial to national security”.

      Neither myself nor, I’m assuming, the person you’re replying to wants to have the government with their grubby little fingers in our data.
      What the person you’re replying to was saying had literally nothing to do with what you asked. Has to do with the above. It’s shocking that a UK court actually made a sane call. In this case, they decided that no, the government wasn’t entitled to a closed case. That the proceedings would be open, and the details would be available to the public. Like in a functioning democracy.

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• alecbowles@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good! We have the right to know!

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  • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do you?

    Where is this right enshrined?

    I’m asking because you seem to believe that such a right exists, where I’m observing that the political leadership across the planet seems to be heading in the opposite direction at an alarming rate.

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    • ogmios@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ‘Political leadership’ doesn’t define reality. People are completely justified to assert rights even if they aren’t expressly approved by big daddy g’vmt.

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    • alecbowles@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not enshrined anywhere but it should be covered under the Humans Rights Act of 1998 in the UK that outlines what constitutes the right to privacy. Since this Backdoor request has the potential to conflict with privacy rights, not only us the public but many people who work on these issues should be given access.

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