The FBI says it's unlocked the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. A district attorney in Baton Rouge, La., is hopeful the FBI will share its master key for an iPhone in a murder case.
The FBI is testing a new tool that may allow it to crack into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters without Apple's help. Its success or failure could have major legal implications.
Director James Comey says law enforcement tools are growing more ineffective in the face of encryption and acknowledges that the legal battle the FBI is fighting with Apple may be precedent-setting.
Though not binding on other courts, the decision cuts against the same law that the FBI is using to compel Apple's help in unlocking an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.
Chief Jarrod Burguan says the push for Apple's help unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters is "an effort to leave no stone unturned in the investigation."
Former Solicitor General Ted Olson is one of the most prominent lawyers in America. He has taken up Apple's fight against the FBI over an encrypted iPhone.
Citing cases in New York, Illinois and elsewhere, Apple says it has received — and resisted — federal orders to access data on iPhones and an iPad in recent months.
The two titans aired their views on what's become a public debate over whether Apple should be compelled to unlock an iPhone used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook.