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by aryan14 471 days ago
As they should. You can’t throw an ultimatum for something that benefits nobody but the govt. and kick everyone around.

Would like to see other companies who were affected by similar situations also take this to court

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How well it’ll do in court is debatable, could go for either side, but regardless of the outcome it’s always good to see resistance and pushback
Apple will lose, because the government didn't break any law.
I don't know what they are arguing in this case, but there is a chance that the government violated the US-UK Bilateral Data Access Agreement 2019, which governs data access requests from either country's government to technology companies based in the other country.
If the British government insists on this applying to non-british citizens in other jurisdictions, they are likely to be in conflict with privacy laws in those countries and that will trigger an international court case.