Freedom! New York judge rules in favor of Apple in earlier locked iPhone case

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New York judge rules in favor of Apple in earlier locked iPhone case

While Apple (AAPL) and the FBI have been busy battling over a dead terrorist's passcode-locked iPhone in a case in California, a federal judge in New York on Monday ruled for Apple in a similar case over a locked iPhone belonging to an admitted drug dealer.

In a 50-page ruling rejecting almost everything federal prosecutors had argued, Judge James Orenstein ruled that Apple could not be compelled to help get information off a locked iPhone used by methamphetamine dealer Jun Feng under the 1789 All Writs Act, the same law at issue in the California terrorism case.

Orenstein acknowledged that the debate over encryption and the needs of law enforcement required balancing competing interests. But Congress, not the courts, should make that decision, he said.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/...lier-locked-iphone-case--001258264.html?nhp=1

Did the judge rule correctly?
 
No state should ever be entitled to unlimited access to the private lives of its citizens. Such states are the enemy.
 
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