FBI director James Comey – who had previously claimed that “the San Bernardino litigation isn’t approximately trying to set a precedent” – has now admitted that it would. The Guardian reports that Comey made the admission when testifying under oath yesterday to a Congress committee.
The ultimate outcome of the Apple-FBI showdown is likely to “guide how other courts handle similar requests”,James Comey told a congressional intelligence panel on Thursday, a softening of his flat insistence on Sunday that the FBI was not attempting to “set a precedent.
Asked if it was trusty that police departments around the country also wanted to gain access to locked iPhones, and he agreed that it was … (more…)
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Source: 9to5mac.com