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Apple's encryption battle with United States still alive in Brooklyn
Source: Reuters
Technology | Tue Mar 29, 2016 5:18pm EDT
Apple's encryption battle with United States still alive in Brooklyn
SAN FRANCISCO | BY DAN LEVINE
The U.S. Department of Justice will disclose over the next two weeks whether it will continue with its bid to compel Apple Inc to help access an iPhone in a Brooklyn drug case, according to a court filing on Tuesday.
The Justice Department this week withdrew a similar request in California, saying it had succeeded in unlocking an iPhone used by one of the shooters involved in a rampage in San Bernardino in December without Apple's help.
Prosecutors have not said whether that technique would work for other seized iPhones, including the one at issue in Brooklyn. Law enforcement officials across the country have said they have encountered Apple devices they cannot access.
The legal dispute between the U.S. government and Apple has been a high-profile test of whether law enforcement should have access to encrypted phone data.
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Apple's encryption battle with United States still alive in Brooklyn
SAN FRANCISCO | BY DAN LEVINE
The U.S. Department of Justice will disclose over the next two weeks whether it will continue with its bid to compel Apple Inc to help access an iPhone in a Brooklyn drug case, according to a court filing on Tuesday.
The Justice Department this week withdrew a similar request in California, saying it had succeeded in unlocking an iPhone used by one of the shooters involved in a rampage in San Bernardino in December without Apple's help.
Prosecutors have not said whether that technique would work for other seized iPhones, including the one at issue in Brooklyn. Law enforcement officials across the country have said they have encountered Apple devices they cannot access.
The legal dispute between the U.S. government and Apple has been a high-profile test of whether law enforcement should have access to encrypted phone data.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-encryption-idUSKCN0WU1RF
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So far, that is what Apple has said. That is good. The govt does not have the right to compel a company to destroy its own market by making their products insecure.
Any law to make that mandatory would get incredible push back from the tech industry and hopefully the public.
Strong encryption is now an important privacy issue.
On last week's Science Friday on NPR they covered this topic in context with the 1990's Clipper chip battle which for the government was a Pyrrhic victory. It is a good discussion and is available as SciFri on iTunes or your podcast aggregator of choice. Highly recommended.
R&K
