Apple has made no bones approximately where it stands in the legal face-off with the FBI over privacy and encryption. And most of Silicon Valley has been in agreement: Dropbox,Facebook, Google, or Microsoft,Snapchat, LinkedIn, and Yahoo are among the 40 companies expected to file court briefs backing Apple. Even Amazon is expected to file a court brief backing Apple—which is peculiar because the company just quietly removed encryption from Fire OS 5 in an update that rolled out to all major Fire tablets.
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Source: gawker.com