New York Wants Donald Trump to Introduce Laws Forcing Apple to Hack iPhones

Many believed that the San Bernardino iPhone saga ended when the FBI eventually managed to break into the device with help from an undisclosed group of hackers, but Apple is still facing problems for refusing to help authorities hack phones involved in criminal activities.

The New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance wants President-elect Donald Trump to introduce laws that would require the likes of Apple and Google to hack the devices they manufacture and which are used by criminals.

In most of the cases, these phones are believed to hold information that would help during the investigation, but given the advanced protection systems used on them, authorities cannot extract the data. The only way to deal with this is the company that built the phone to step in and break into the device, but Apple has until now refused to do so, and the San Bernardino case was the tip of the iceberg.

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