The Seeds Of Apple’s Standoff With DOJ May Have Been Sown In Brooklyn

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Publish Date:

February 22, 2016

Author(s):

Rose, Joel

Source:

NPR

Related Organization(s):

Center for Internet and Society

Summary

The debate over whether Apple should defeat the security on the iPhone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook isn’t the first time the company has clashed with law enforcement.

Apple CEO Tim Cook appears Sept. 9, 2015, in San Francisco to unveil the latest iterations of the company’s smartphone.

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“What was remarkable was that the public hadn’t seen the argument surfaced,” says Jennifer Granick at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. She says Judge Orenstein was trying to stoke a public debate. “Judge Orenstein had concerns about whether the government’s legal argument was a valid legal argument.”