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End-to-end encryption creates a condition that has no clean legal workaround: the company managing the infrastructure does not hold the decryption key.
Any government demand for access to the underlying plaintext collides with that architecture before any policy question enters the picture.
Apple has filed a fresh legal challenge against the UK government's demand for exactly this kind of access, arriving approximately one year after the UK dropped an earlier version of the same demand.
What the original demand covered The UK's initial access demand carried an unusual geographic scope.
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