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Post by congregatio on Dec 1, 2014 5:31:33 GMT 4
NYC, US attorneys told the court in an Oct. 10 filing that they had seized a mobile phone while investigating alleged credit card fraud and, despite obtaining a search warrant, had been unable to bypass the phone’s password-protection. With the data otherwise inaccessible, federal prosecutors said the court could order the manufacturer to provide “reasonable technical assistance” in unlocking the device by relying on the All Writs Act. That legislation, Judge Gabriel Gorenstein for the Southern District of New York acknowledged in his Oct. 31 response, provides that federal courts “may issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law.” Read more at investmenthingychblog.com/government-uses-225-year-old-law-to-force-companies-to-unlock-phones/#HKuz2YurU7IdPsVz.99
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