FBI should reveal who hacked the San Bernardino iPhone, lawsuit claims
by Nicky Woolf in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#1VAJR)
A court summons has been issued, as lawsuit says the public needs to know how an unidentified vendor broke into one of the world's most popular products
A federal court in Washington DC has issued a summons to the FBI after a group of media organizations filed a suit compelling them to release details about how they hacked an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino killers.
On Friday, the Associated Press (AP), Gannett newspapers and Vice Media filed a lawsuit to compel the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act (Foia) to reveal details about the way they gained access earlier this year to the phone belonging to Syed Farook, one of perpetrators of the attack in San Bernardino in December 2015 in which 14 people were killed.
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