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Title: News: DOJ drops second court fight with Apple over unlocking iPhone Post by: HCK on April 25, 2016, 04:05:24 pm News: DOJ drops second court fight with Apple over unlocking iPhone
The Department of Justice has dropped its appeal of a decision that prevented the government from forcing Apple to unlock a convicted drug dealer’s iPhone, Bloomberg reports. The DOJ had pledged to fight on after a judge ruled the government’s use of the All Writs Act to compel Apple’s assistance was illegal, but dropped the case after obtaining the passcode to access the device from a third-party. That leaves a 50-page ruling supporting… Source: News: DOJ drops second court fight with Apple over unlocking iPhone (http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/doj-drops-second-court-fight-with-apple-over-unlocking-iphone) |