FBI director James Comey, above, has responded to an open letter from Apple CEO Tim Cook with one of his own, which argues that unlocking the iPhone that was used by a San Bernardino gunman would not set a dangerous precedent for the future. Instead, Comey insists it is about justice for the victims who lost their life or were seriously injured during the attack. "We owe them a...
Apple CEO Tim Cook has penned an open letter to protest a court order demanding the company unlocks an iPhone 5c belonging to one of the gunmen in the San Bernardino shooting. The FBI wants Apple to create a backdoor in iOS, which it refuses to do. United States magistrates judge Sheri Pym, citing the All Writs Act of 1789, asks Apple to assist the FBI in gaining access to an iPhone...
Usually it’s Apple that calls out other companies for copying its design, but one phone-maker may have a chance to turn the tables on Cupertino. Chinese firm Digione is claiming that Apple cribbed its design for the iPhone 6, pointing to a patent filed all the way back in January 2014 and granted in July. Digione contacted Apple directly back in September but apparently hasn’t received...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday officially ruled that phones in the United States are "generally protected from searches without warrant," which means law enforcement should now need a warrant before they try to open your phone and use its contents as evidence against you. The suit, Riley v. California was brought to the Supreme Court after a man named David Riley was pulled over in...
In an effort to be more transparent, Verizon Communications on Wednesday revealed how many requests it received from law enforcement in 2013. The information is being made public following the NSA mess from last year, which claimed the agency was collecting millions of phone records from the carrier. According to Verizon's Transparency Report, the company received approximately 320,000...
Los Angeles comedian Randy Liedtke decided to give his comedy routine a real life test drive on the streets of California. His goal? To get pulled over for talking on an iPhone, except that the iPhone in question is actually a cookie to baked in the shaped of Apple’s unmistakable design. Tweeting live from his real phone, Liedtke was able to pick up the attention of a policeman who...
In August, President Barrack Obama vetoed a decision by the International Trade Commission which would have stopped the import of iPhone 4 and iPad 2 3G to the United States because of a patent infringement suit from Samsung. Not long after, the tables found themselves turned with Apple able to convince the ITC to ban imports of Samsung phones. In a strange twist of fate, Samsung...
New South Wales’ police are currently engaged in a trial program of using iPad mini tablets to issue tickets for traffic violations. The four week pilot program has police in Sydney, Australia and some of the surrounding regions trying out 20 locked iPad minis as a tool to speed up the process of issuing tickets. An app called Mobile Notices was built by Australian firm Grindstone and...
An Ohio man has filed a class action lawsuit against Apple over the way the final season of hit show Breaking Bad was released on iTunes. Noam Lazebnik filed the class action suit in San Jose, Calif. on Sept. 6 claiming that Apple had falsely advertised that the “Season Pass” purchased in the summer of 2012 would cover the entire fifth season of Breaking Bad. When the show resumed with...
Apple is under fire again, this time thanks to two former Apple Store employees who have filed a lawsuit seeking compensation for frequent bag searches that were conducted off-the-clock, Reuters reports. The plaintiffs argue that these searches, which allegedly included waiting in line for five to 10 minutes, should be viewed as overtime. “This work, done primarily for the employer’s...