Rebecca Vincent, from civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch, said that ordering Apple to create a backdoor “that would effectively break encryption for millions of users - (would be) an unprecedented attack on privacy rights that has no place in any democracy.”.
‘First buddy’ of Donald Trump has again attacked the Labour prime minister - this time in a row over technology and privacy.
On Friday it emerged the government had ordered Apple to allow it access to users’ encrypted files, prompting allegations of an “unprecedented attack” on privacy rights.
Apple has said it regards privacy as a "fundamental human right" and that its current set up means that no-one else can access a user's data, not even the company itself.
But tech firms have staunchly defended users’ right to privacy and warned that any “backdoor” into systems, as they are known, could also be exploited by criminals or authoritarian regimes.
