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Apple has released a statement denying having worked with the National Security Agency to create a “backdoor” for the government to have complete access to users’ iPhones.

The Cupertino, Calif., tech giant issued the statement after another NSA surveillance program was exposed, this time by cyber security researcher Jacob Applebaum in Der Spiegel, the German news magazine.

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A man uses his phone as he walks past an Apple store in Hong Kong on December 25, 2013.
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