Apple files to dismiss court order to unlock iPhone

HOUSTON

Apple on Thursday filed a motion to vacate a court order compelling it to assist the FBI to unlock an iPhone.

"This is not a case about one isolated iPhone," the global tech giant said in the motion filed in a federal court in California.

"This case is about the Department of Justice and the FBI seeking through the courts a dangerous power that Congress and the American people have withheld," it added.

Apple insists that the court's order would "undermine the basic security and privacy interests of hundreds of millions of individuals around the globe" against hackers, identity thieves, hostile foreign agents and unwarranted government surveillance.

The Justice Department filed a motion in court last Friday to force Apple to work with the FBI to unlock the iPhone believed to belong to Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the deceased suspects in the San Bernardino, California shooting that killed 14 victims.

"Apple strongly supports, and will continue to support, the efforts of law enforcement in pursuing justice against terrorists and other criminals—just as it has in this case and many others," it added.

The company believes the court order violates its constitutional rights.

"The unprecedented order requested by the government finds no support in the law and would violate the Constitution," Apple said in the motion.

HOUSTON

Apple on Thursday filed a motion to vacate a court order compelling it to assist the FBI to unlock an iPhone.

"This is not a case about one isolated iPhone," the global tech giant said in the motion filed in a federal court in California.

"This case is about the Department of Justice and the FBI seeking through the courts a dangerous power that Congress and the American people have withheld," it added.

The company believes the court order violates its constitutional rights.

"The unprecedented order requested by the government finds no support in the law and would violate the Constitution," Apple said in the motion.