US used tactic from Apple encryption fight in 60 other phone-unlocking cases

US used tactic from Apple encryption fight in 60 other phone-unlocking cases

US used tactic from Apple encryption fight in 60 other phone-unlocking cases, The US government has acclimated the aforementioned acknowledged tactic it deployed in its encryption action with Apple in added than 60 added phone-unlocking cases, according to a account by a aloofness watchdog, including added iPhones and accessories active Google’s Android operating system.

The American Civil Liberties Union scoured cloister annal beyond the US for cases area the government relied on the All Writs Act to try to force Google or Apple to advice them alleviate a phone. The statute, which has its origins in a added than 200-year-old acknowledged principle, gives board ample ascendancy to ensure their orders – such as seek warrants – are fulfilled.

In the Apple case, the US Department of Justice cited All Writs in blame a adjudicator to adjustment Apple to address software that would accomplish it easier for federal board to assumption the iPhone passcode of Syed Farook, the San Bernardino gunman. Attorneys for abounding technology companies – including Microsoft, Google and Facebook – argued this would actualize too ample of a antecedent beneath All Writs.

The adjudicator in the San Bernardino case never gave a final cardinal on that catechism afterwards the Justice Department withdrew its case. The FBI said that it had begin a way to drudge into the buzz after Apple’s help.

Still, the government, as it has said before, appears to accept some success in application All Writs again in contempo years to get into bound phones. Abounding of the cases complex requests to download abstracts or displace canyon codes.

The ACLU begin 14 such cases in California, 12 in New York and 5 in Illinois. The absolute came to at atomic 63 accepted cases back 2010. In court, government attorneys accept said they acclimated All Writs some 70 times auspiciously to alleviate phones.

The ACLU accepted 63 cases in total. It could not be accepted in how abounding of the cases the government had success.

In March 2015, the government asked Apple to abstract abstracts from several iPhones, including a archetypal 5S, which can run avant-garde aegis tools. The case complex an actionable bank ring in Nevada.

Meantime, the government in a 2013 biologic trafficking case in New Mexico approved advice from Google in resetting a buzz active its Android operating system.

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