{"id":356507,"date":"2025-08-19T09:59:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356507\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:59:16","slug":"britain-drops-demand-for-access-to-apple-user-data-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356507\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain drops demand for access to Apple user data \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The company then filed a complaint with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal challenging the Home Secretary\u2019s powers to issue such a notice.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The dispute has been a sticking point in negotiations for a tech cooperation pact between London and Washington. The Financial Times reported<\/a> last month that senior Washington officials, including Vice President JD Vance, were pressuring the U.K. to drop its fight with Apple.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The U.S. State Department\u2019s annual assessment of countries\u2019 human rights records published last month raised concerns<\/a> about U.K. \u201cgovernment regulation to reduce or eliminate effective encryption (and therefore user privacy) on platforms,\u201d though appeared to confuse the Online Safety Act with the Investigatory Powers Act.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The company then filed a complaint with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal challenging the Home Secretary\u2019s powers to issue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,2814,6511,2438,3450,393,4884,4582,2817,601,1144,23740,7965,2443,5549,712,7154,16,15,49,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-356507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-data","12":"tag-data-protection","13":"tag-department","14":"tag-encryption","15":"tag-england","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-human-rights","18":"tag-intelligence","19":"tag-jd-vance","20":"tag-northern-ireland","21":"tag-online-safety","22":"tag-platforms","23":"tag-regulation","24":"tag-safety","25":"tag-scotland","26":"tag-software","27":"tag-uk","28":"tag-united-kingdom","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115054848573698624","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}