Apple: US endeavor to open iPhone could affect NY case

NEW YORK: Apple said the US Justice Department's new endeavors to open an iPhone utilized by one of the San Bernardino shooters without the tech goliath's assistance could dispose of the administration's requirement for its help with a comparable question in New York.

The organization's position was laid out in a letter documented on Thursday in government court in Brooklyn, New York, looking to postpone preparation in the Justice Department's allure of a decision that shields Apple from opening an iPhone in a medication case.



The letter came after US prosecutors on Monday uncovered that "an outside gathering" had introduced a conceivable approach to open the telephone in the San Bernardino examination, which they said could take out the requirement for a request requiring Apple's assistance.

In its letter, Apple said if the strategy being assessed in the San Bernardino case can likewise be utilized as a part of the Brooklyn drug case, "it would take out the requirement for Apple's help."