FBI director admits under oath that iPhone case would set a precedent; public & Republican candidates still on FBI side<div class="feat-image">
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<p>FBI director James Comey – who had <a href="
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/25/fbi-director-james-comey-apple-encryption-case-legal-precedent" target="_blank">Guardian[/url] reports that Comey made the admission when testifying under oath yesterday to a Congress committee.</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The ultimate outcome of the Apple-FBI showdown is likely to “guide how other courts handle similar requests”, James Comey told a congressional intelligence panel on Thursday, a softening of his flat insistence on Sunday that the FBI was not attempting to “<span class="s2">set a precedent</span>”.</span></p>
<p>Asked if it was true that police departments around the country also wanted to gain access to locked iPhones, he agreed that it was …</p>
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