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A Quick Update: Apple, Privacy, and the All Writs Act of 1789

Author(s):

Jennifer Granick

Riana Pfefferkorn

Publication Date:

October 30, 2015

Publication Type:

Other Writing

Here’s the latest in the encryption case we’ve been writing about in which the Justice Department is asking Magistrate Judge James Orenstein to order Apple to unlock a criminal defendant’s passcode-protected iPhone. The government seized and has authority to search the phone pursuant to a search warrant. Read more » about A Quick Update: Apple, Privacy, and the All Writs Act of 1789

The All Writs Act, Software Licenses, and Why Judges Should Ask More Questions

Author(s):

Jennifer Granick

Riana Pfefferkorn

Publication Date:

October 26, 2015

Publication Type:

Other Writing

Pending before federal magistrate judge James Orenstein is the government’s request for an order obligating Apple, Inc. to unlock an iPhone and thereby assist prosecutors in decrypting data the government has seized and is authorized to search pursuant to a warrant. Read more » about The All Writs Act, Software Licenses, and Why Judges Should Ask More Questions

Update on Apple’s Compelled-Decryption Case

Author(s):

Jennifer Granick

Riana Pfefferkorn

Publication Date:

October 20, 2015

Publication Type:

Other Writing

Last week, we wrote about an order from a federal magistrate judge in New York that questioned the government’s ability, under an ancient federal law called the All Writs Act, to compel Apple to decrypt a locked device which the government had seized and is authorized to search pursuant to a warrant. Read more » about Update on Apple’s Compelled-Decryption Case

Faced with an iPhone they can’t unlock, cops again turn to Apple for help

Date published:

October 21, 2015

Ars Technica

"Outside legal scholars also noted that Apple has drawn the line between a locked iOS 7 device, which may technically be able to be opened, and fully encrypted iOS 8 devices—which will soon encompass all such iPhones and iPads."That is, I think, the correct distinction—as a matter of policy and as a matter of law. Pulling data from the former is an inconvenience," Jonathan Mayer, a law lecturer at Stanford University, told Ars by e-mail. Read more » about Faced with an iPhone they can’t unlock, cops again turn to Apple for help