Apple strikes back at FBI over appeal in New York iPhone unlock caseIn a new court filing, Apple has asked a New York judge to dismiss the Justice Department's recent appeal in an ongoing Brooklyn drug case in which the government is seeking Apple's help to access data on an iPhone. In the filing, Apple argues that the government hasn't yet proven that the tech giant's assistance is warranted in this particular case.
From The Wall Street Journal:
"The government has utterly failed to demonstrate that the requested order is necessary to effectuate the search warrant, including that it exhausted all other avenues for recovering the information it seeks," Apple argued in the new filing to U.S. District Judge Margo Brodie. "Before the government demands that Apple do the work of law enforcement, the government must offer evidence that it has performed an 'exhaustive search' and that it remains unable to obtain the data it seeks without Apple's assistance."
Apple's response comes a week after the government said it will appeal a district judge's o...
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Apple strikes back at FBI over appeal in New York iPhone unlock case
