US accuses Apple of ‘repudiating’ order on phone access

Requests for help accessing iPhones have usually involved more routine cases than terrorism incidents.

“Apple may maintain custody of the software, destroy it after its objective under the order has been served, refuse to disseminate it outside of Apple and make clear to the world that it does not apply to other devices or users without lawful court orders”, the Justice Department told Judge Sheri Pym. Of Cook’s opposition to the court order, Logan said: “Tim is now dealing with a very hard situation and he knows the decision he has made has lots of ramifications, good or bad”.

Cook insists that an encryption is important as it secures its users’ personal information, but creating a backdoor will put its users at risk.

“Boycott Apple until such time as they give that information”, he boomed at a town-gall event ahead of the South Carolina GOP primary.

Trump and Cruz, by contrast, have firmly sided with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in its showdown with Apple. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. “What I keep calling for is to try to get the government and our great tech companies to figure out what is the path forward”, Clinton told MSNBC this week. Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, released a strongly-worded letter in which he vowed to fight the order in order to protect Apple customers’ right to privacy.

China is particularly treacherous territory for the company.

In one case, after law enforcement officials rushed a phone to Apple’s headquarters for data extraction, the engineers discovered their target had not enabled the device’s passcode feature.

The company is playing the long game with its business. And if it cooperates with one government, the thinking goes, it will have to cooperate with all of them. Marco Rubio – have competed furiously for military votes in a state with strong cultural and economic ties to the USA armed forces.

USA government lawyers responded on Friday that Apple’s refusal to comply “appears to be based on its concern for its business model and public brand marketing strategy”. “This has massive implications to how other governments” will view technology privacy.

Yahoo was admonished by US lawmakers almost 10 years ago for outing Chinese dissidents through their email accounts.

And authorities in Brazil briefly shut down Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging application in December for not cooperating in a criminal investigation.

“The government’s demands are chilling”, he said as reported by CNBC.

Pichai isn’t alone in his support for Apple.

Percolating in the background was a case with similar issues: In Brooklyn, a federal magistrate judge had asked Apple in late 2015 if there were legal grounds to reject a prosecutor’s request for a similar order concerning a drug suspect. “Apple is doing what every company should be doing”. And that hurts the bottom line.

Finally, Lockheimer was asked about Edward Snowden’s comments.

Both Google and Twitter have also come out in support of Apple.

Google’s CEO has thrown his hat in Apple’s corner. There were no signs of resistance from the company. The result was the letter that Cook signed on Tuesday, where he argued that it set a “dangerous precedent” for a company to be forced to build tools for the government that weaken security.