A London court hearing, reported to be Apple's appeal against a British government order to create a "back door" to its encrypted cloud storage systems, was held in secret on Friday, with media not allowed to attend despite a formal request.

Apple's appeal against the British Government to be heard in secret The tech giant is fighting a request to build a back door into its encryption We polled TechRadar users for their thoughts - here's what you said It looks likely Apple’s legal appeal against the UK government will be heard at a secret hearing at the High Court,

Privacy rights groups have called on Apple's legal challenge to a secret U.K. government order asking it to backdoor an end-to-end encrypted (E2EE)

The BBC - along with civil liberties groups and some US politicians - argue the case should be heard in public.