Apple tells judge that US government is well-meaning but wrong in privacy fight
by Danny Yadron in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#177HQ)
The tech company's lawyers tried to lower the temperature in their fight with the FBI in a 26-page legal filing before a California court hears the encryption case
Apple's lawyers tried to lower the temperature in the company's fight with the US government on Tuesday, telling a federal judge that America's Justice Department is well-meaning but wrong in its privacy standoff with the iPhone maker.
The 26-page legal filing is either side's last argument before they face each other in a California court on 22 March over whether the government can order Apple to weaken the security settings on one of its ubiquitous phones linked to the San Bernardino shooting last December.
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