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No grounds to rip up UK-US data-sharing deal, UK government says amid Apple dispute

By Patricia Figueiredo and Frank Hersey ( April 10, 2025, 16:45 GMT | Insight) -- Calls to renegotiate the UK's data-sharing agreement with the US are groundless, the UK government has said, responding to criticism from US lawmakers worried that use of a national security law against Apple could risk US citizens' encrypted data. A Home Office spokesperson told MLex that powers granted under the law don't translate to immediate access to personal data and that, in any case, US citizens are protected by the data-sharing treaty.Controversial UK surveillance powers can't be used to access the personal data of US citizens, the government has said, pushing back at criticism from US lawmakers who have called for a renegotiation of the countries' bilateral data-sharing treaty....

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