Attorney General William Barr, declaring last month’s naval base shooting an act of terrorism, pushed Apple to unlock the gunman’s phones.
Monday, January 13, 2020 2:23 PM EST
Mr. Barr’s appeal was an escalation of an ongoing fight between the Justice Department and Apple pitting personal privacy against public safety.
Apple has given investigators materials from the iCloud account of the gunman, Second Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a member of the Saudi air force training with the American military, who killed three sailors and wounded eight others on Dec. 6 in Pensacola, Fla. But the company has refused to help the F.B.I. open the phones themselves, which would undermine its claims that its phones are secure.
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