In a hearing before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee today, the DoJ addressed its recent efforts to compel technology companies to turn over electronic communications data stored on foreign soil.
The Maricopa County Attorney said he won't do business with Apple after its refusal to aid the FBI in unlocking the iPhone of one of the alleged San Bernadino, Calif. shooters.
The Justice Department's request for Apple's help in unlocking its smart phone technology goes far beyond the device used by the alleged San Bernardino shooters, with federal prosecutors currently pressing the company to unlock at least nine additional phones across the country, Apple's attorney Marc J. Zwillinger said in a letter unsealed in federal court Tuesday.
President Obama Wednesday signed the Judicial Redress Act into law, in effect giving select U.S. allies the same protections under the Privacy Act offered to U.S. citizens.