Report: Google, Twitter, Facebook, & Microsoft to file court motions officially supporting Apple in FBI fight
Following Apple’s filling earlier today in which it formally responded to the FBI’s court request to access date on a…
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Apple makes interesting security hire as it compares FBI request to forcing pharma firm to make lethal drugs
TechCrunch spotted an interesting security hire by Apple: the developer behind Edward Snowden’s recommended secure chat app is joining Apple…
Civil rights groups and tech companies express support for Apple’s stand against the FBI
Civil rights organizations have expressed strong support for Apple’s resistance to a court order instructing it to create special firmware that…
Apple supports Google in resisting FBI warrant, says would set ‘troubling’ precedent
Apple has joined Amazon and Microsoft in a court filing which supports Google’s decision to resist an FBI warrant demanding…
Should Apple comply with FBI request to bypass San Bernardino gunman’s iPhone? [Poll]
News broke yesterday that a United States magistrate judge in California ordered Apple to comply with the FBI’s request for assistance in…
Report says DOJ seeking data from ‘about’ 12 other iPhones as Bill Gates sides with FBI
Update: Bill Gates has told Bloomberg that he was “disappointed” by the ways his views were presented, and he does…
Oracle founder Larry Ellison bizarrely called Apple’s FBI battle ‘bizarre’
In one of the stranger and belated twists to Apple’s battle with the FBI over the San Bernardino iPhone, Oracle…
Mark Zuckerberg sides w/ Apple in encryption battle as poll suggests public supports FBI
Following Tim Cook sending a letter to all Apple employees earlier today regarding the issue, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has…
Apple/FBI: San Bernardino District Attorney strangely claims suspect’s iPhone contains a ‘cyber pathogen’
Although tech companies are joining Apple’s camp en masse for the Apple/FBI court battle due to commence on March 22nd, there are…
FBI director says officials have been in talks with Apple, Google over device encryption policies
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation James Comey expressed his concern today over Apple and Google’s decision to encrypt information stored on smartphones,…
End-to-end encryption ‘infects’ law enforcement, says FBI, as Apple and others seek to protect it
A senior FBI official who testified to Congress during its battle with Apple over access to a locked iPhone has…
iPhone and Android hacking tool used by FBI and DHS on sale on eBay for as little as $100
The Cellebrite Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) is a smartphone hacking tool commonly used by the FBI, Department of Homeland…
ACLU, United Nations watchdog, & others file court briefs siding with Apple in encryption case
A day after Apple testified before the House Judiciary Committee, a handful of privacy groups have officially filed that they support…
Twitter, Airbnb, Square, plus many more officially file joint brief supporting Apple in FBI case [Updated]
Update #2: A second coalition of tech companies including Google, Microsoft Facebook, Snapchat, Mozilla, and Dropbox have also filed a joint…
Report: Apple to argue that encryption battle with FBI should be decided by Congress
According to a report from the Associated Press, Apple plans to file legal papers in which it will argue that…
FBI director admits under oath that iPhone case would set a precedent; public & Republican candidates still on FBI side
FBI director James Comey – who had previously claimed that “the San Bernardino litigation isn’t about trying to set a…
Opinion: How likely is Apple to succeed in resisting the FBI court order?
I laid out the three reasons I believe Apple is right to stand firm on encryption back in November. The…
LA Unified School District brings ‘iPads for All’ program to a close as FBI opens investigation
Earlier this year the Los Angeles Unified School District announced that it would be suspending its “iPad for All” program after…
Man behind celebrity nude photos leaked from iCloud pleads guilty to phishing scheme
The man responsible for leaking explicit photos of dozens of celebrities back in 2014 has been formally charged today. According…
Comment: Here’s how to explain the Apple/FBI debate to your non-techy friends
The latest Apple/FBI war of words in the Pensacola case has once again highlighted the huge challenge Apple has in…
Apple/FBI fight looks destined to go all the way to the Supreme Court as more background is revealed
If Tim Cook’s strongly-worded response to the court order instructing it to assist the FBI in breaking into an iPhone…
Apple joins Google, Microsoft and others in an open letter declaring anti-encryption bill ‘unworkable’
Just a day after a prominent legal expert described the proposed anti-encryption Burr-Feinstein bill as unconstitutional, unenforceable and harmful, Apple…
NY district attorney says Apple’s encryption policy “an issue of public safety” for law enforcement
Bloomberg reports that a Manhattan District Attorney is challenging recent moves by Apple, Google and other tech companies by suggesting…
Report: Apple developing at least 6 cloud infrastructure projects incl. servers to prevent snooping
Following two reports earlier this month detailing Apple’s deal to move iCloud partly to Google’s Cloud Platform, as well as the…