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The Department of Justice said Friday it is moving forward on a separate legal front to force Apple's assistance in unlocking the iPhone linked to a drug conspiracy case in New York City.
In a one-page letter filed in a New York federal court, Justice lawyers said the government "continues to require Apple's assistance in accessing the data'' on the iPhone of Jun Feng, a Queens, N.Y. suspect who pleaded guilty in a methamphetamine conspiracy case.
The Brooklyn federal court filing comes a week after the government abruptly withdrew from a similar high-profile legal challenge in California after the FBI was able to access the contents of the iPhone used by San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook, using a method developed by an undisclosed outside party.
The government's position signals a continuing legal battle that pits privacy issues against law enforcement security concerns. The issue has drawn contrasting legal arguments from tech companies, civil liberties experts and law enforcement officials across the nation and beyond.
The smartphone in the Brooklyn federal court case is an iPhone 5S, running on Apple’s iOS7 operating system. Both the model and operating system are different than iPhone in the San Bernardino case.
Federal investigators ran tests to determine whether the third-party method that enabled them to extract to data from the San Bernardino case iPhone would work on other Apple models, a senior law enforcement official said Friday.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the government representative was not authorized to comment publicly on the pending legal matter.
Asked specifically whether investigators had tested the third-party extraction method on the iPhone in the Brooklyn case, the official cited FBI Director James Comey’s Wednesday statement that the method only works on a "narrow slice" of iPhones, not all models.
Apple attorneys said Friday that the company, while disappointed with the government's decision to proceed in the Brooklyn case, would defend its position in court and attempt to force the FBI to disclose the method it used to unlock the San Bernardino phone. The company wants to ensure that the government had exhausted all options for accessing the contents of the phone in the drug case.
The attorneys, who spoke on the condition that Apple's representatives not be publicly identified, asserted that a full vetting of the method used by the FBI in the San Bernardino investigation would be a core part of Apple's legal strategy in Brooklyn.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/04/08/justice-moving-forward-separate-apple-case/82788824/
In a one-page letter filed in a New York federal court, Justice lawyers said the government "continues to require Apple's assistance in accessing the data'' on the iPhone of Jun Feng, a Queens, N.Y. suspect who pleaded guilty in a methamphetamine conspiracy case.
The Brooklyn federal court filing comes a week after the government abruptly withdrew from a similar high-profile legal challenge in California after the FBI was able to access the contents of the iPhone used by San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook, using a method developed by an undisclosed outside party.
The government's position signals a continuing legal battle that pits privacy issues against law enforcement security concerns. The issue has drawn contrasting legal arguments from tech companies, civil liberties experts and law enforcement officials across the nation and beyond.
The smartphone in the Brooklyn federal court case is an iPhone 5S, running on Apple’s iOS7 operating system. Both the model and operating system are different than iPhone in the San Bernardino case.
Federal investigators ran tests to determine whether the third-party method that enabled them to extract to data from the San Bernardino case iPhone would work on other Apple models, a senior law enforcement official said Friday.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the government representative was not authorized to comment publicly on the pending legal matter.
Asked specifically whether investigators had tested the third-party extraction method on the iPhone in the Brooklyn case, the official cited FBI Director James Comey’s Wednesday statement that the method only works on a "narrow slice" of iPhones, not all models.
Apple attorneys said Friday that the company, while disappointed with the government's decision to proceed in the Brooklyn case, would defend its position in court and attempt to force the FBI to disclose the method it used to unlock the San Bernardino phone. The company wants to ensure that the government had exhausted all options for accessing the contents of the phone in the drug case.
The attorneys, who spoke on the condition that Apple's representatives not be publicly identified, asserted that a full vetting of the method used by the FBI in the San Bernardino investigation would be a core part of Apple's legal strategy in Brooklyn.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/04/08/justice-moving-forward-separate-apple-case/82788824/
