Apple wins case in which he was asked to unlock iPhone – La Prensa de Honduras

San Francisco, United States.

A New York judge refused to force Apple to unlock the iPhone a particular case of open drug trafficking in the district court in Brooklyn, according to a statement released yesterday by the court.

the cause was opened in October last year and was presided by judge James Orenstein, but the sentence comes today by the pulse that keep authorities with the Apple company to disclose information of a phone used in the killing of San Bernardino.

in the case of Brooklyn, the judge decided that the reasons presented by the prosecution do not justify force Apple to circumvent the security key on the iPhone, for a number of reasons detailed in the judgment, 50 pages.

“After receiving the facts and arguments of the parties, I conclude that none of these Apple justifies factors impose an obligation to assist the government investigation against their will. He therefore deny the motion, “he said

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The main defendant, Jung Feng, was arrested in the New York borough of Queens on June 11, 2014 by conspiring with four other individuals for trafficking methamphetamines . Authorities seized several items, including an iPhone 5s, and investigations resulted a year later in the request to be allowed to recover information from that and other mobile phones.

Although another judge authorized the search and gave within two weeks to run, agents of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) attempted to access content but were unable to circumvent the security key.

the decision was based on the Law of Writs 1789 and no legal precedent for other requests in the same direction, according to legal experts.