29-03-2016 19:35 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Apple's encryption battle with United States still alive in Brooklyn

By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice will disclose over the next two weeks whether it will continue with its bid to compel Apple Inc to help access an iPhone in a Brooklyn drug case, according to a court filing on Tuesday. The Justice Department this week withdrew a similar request in California, saying it had succeeded in unlocking an iPhone used by one of the shooters involved in a rampage in San Bernardino in December without Apple's help. Prosecutors have no
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