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| WASHINGTON — In the next battleground in the Justice Department’s fight to unlock some of Apple’s well-encrypted iPhones, the department on Friday pressed ahead with its efforts to get access to a locked phone linked to a methamphetamine ring in Brooklyn. | WASHINGTON — In the next battleground in the Justice Department’s fight to unlock some of Apple’s well-encrypted iPhones, the department on Friday pressed ahead with its efforts to get access to a locked phone linked to a methamphetamine ring in Brooklyn. |
| Although the F.B.I. unlocked a phone last month, ending its prominent legal battle with Apple in the case involving the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., the Justice Department on Friday told a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York that it still needs the technology giant’s help to unlock the phone in the Brooklyn case. | Although the F.B.I. unlocked a phone last month, ending its prominent legal battle with Apple in the case involving the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., the Justice Department on Friday told a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York that it still needs the technology giant’s help to unlock the phone in the Brooklyn case. |
| It is seeking to overturn an earlier order from another judge in Brooklyn who sided with Apple and said the Justice Department had overreached in trying to force the company to give it access to an encrypted iPhone used by a convicted drug dealer. | It is seeking to overturn an earlier order from another judge in Brooklyn who sided with Apple and said the Justice Department had overreached in trying to force the company to give it access to an encrypted iPhone used by a convicted drug dealer. |
| In its letter on Friday, the Justice Department said that “the government’s application is not moot and the government continues to require Apple’s assistance in accessing the data that it is authorized to search by warrant.” | In its letter on Friday, the Justice Department said that “the government’s application is not moot and the government continues to require Apple’s assistance in accessing the data that it is authorized to search by warrant.” |
| A lawyer for Apple said the company was disappointed but not surprised by the government’s decision to press ahead with the Brooklyn case. The lawyer, who spoke to reporters on the condition of anonymity at the company’s insistence, said he believed that the Justice Department was pushing the case not because of the value of the information in the phone, but rather to set a precedent that could be used to get into dozens of locked iPhones nationwide. | |
| The F.B.I.’s fight with Apple over the iPhone used by one of the attackers in San Bernardino in December ended abruptly after the bureau paid an outside firm — which company and how much is still unknown — to demonstrate a way around two defense mechanisms in the phone. | The F.B.I.’s fight with Apple over the iPhone used by one of the attackers in San Bernardino in December ended abruptly after the bureau paid an outside firm — which company and how much is still unknown — to demonstrate a way around two defense mechanisms in the phone. |
| With tensions high, the F.B.I. said this week that it had not yet shared that solution with Apple and had not decided whether to do so. Investigators have not said what data was retrieved or even whether it considers it useful. | With tensions high, the F.B.I. said this week that it had not yet shared that solution with Apple and had not decided whether to do so. Investigators have not said what data was retrieved or even whether it considers it useful. |