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Apple Likely To Invoke Free-Speech Rights In Encryption Fight


Ron Burgundy
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A worker tries to repair an iPhone in a repair store in New YorkBy David Ingram and Dan Levine NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc will likely seek to invoke the United States' protections of free speech as one of its key legal arguments in trying to block an order to help unlock the encrypted iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, lawyers with expertise in the subject said this week. Apple will now have until Feb. 26 to send a reply, a person familiar with matter told Reuters. The tech giant and the Obama administration are on track for a major collision over computer security and encryption after a federal magistrate judge in Los Angeles handed down an order on Tuesday requiring Apple to provide specific software and technical assistance to investigators.




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