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This summer, the Justice Department obtained a court order in a case involving guns and drugs and demanded that Apple turn over iMessages sent between suspects in the case. Apple's response was that it couldn't comply – the encryption prevented it from being able to read the messages, so turning the data over to law enforcement would be useless.
Now, some senior Justice Department and FBI officials are calling for Apple to be taken to court over the issue, reports The New York Times. Earlier this year, FBI director James Comey argued that tech companies who serve lots of message traffic, such as Apple, Google, and WhatsApp, should build in master keys to bypass end-to-end encryption.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by frojack on Friday September 11 2015, @03:07AM
Doesn't the government have some pretty powerful get out of jail free cards with regard to Discovery?
They can invoke executive privileged just about any time they want. They can just state that the information is sensitive and part of an on-going investigation. They can simply decide a whole bunch of memos are not germane, and who's to say differently?
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