Apple filed its brief yesterday to vacate the court’s order to write software to disable the security features of the iPhone so that the government could gain a…
“There are a lot of ways in which the debate over the past year and a half has been déjà vu all over again,” says Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at St…
"“The human equivalent of the company signing code is basically saying, ‘We believe that this code is safe for you to run,'” says Jennifer Granick, dir…
Bloomberg Law Brief with June Grasso. Andrea Matwyshyn, a law professor at Northeastern University, and Nate Cardozo, a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Founda…
It is not often that a legal battle over smartphone firmware captures the national imagination, but such is the case as the FBI tries to access the data contain…
""Can you force Apple to design their product in a particular way and that also could have a speech component?" wondered Ryan Calo, an assistant…
"“Apple goes pretty far by saying its software has a viewpoint,” said Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law. “Tha…
"“I think it’s fair to say there’s an extraordinary amount of support for Apple right now,” said Andrew Bridges, a partner at the law firm Fenwick & We…
"“The argument spells out pretty much as expected,” said Andrea Matwyshyn, a law professor at Northeastern University. She brought up Apple’s claim that i…
On Monday, I wrote a post for Just Security where I reflected on last week's news concerning the FBI's attempts to coerce Apple into creating a forensic…
Today, the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and attorney Matthew J. Craig of Shapiro Arato LLP filed an amicus brief on behalf of Internet networking ex…
Apple’s celebrated fight with the FBI over the security of its encrypted iPhones has shone the spotlight on an old and obscure federal law from 1789 known as th…