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While Apple ( AAPL ) continues to fight a court order to break its iPhone encryption in the San Bernardino, Calif., shooter case, it won a victory in a similar legal dispute in New York. U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein ruled Monday that the U.S. Justice Department cannot force Apple to provide the FBI with access to locked iPhone data in a Brooklyn drug case, the Associated Press reported . Orenstein’s order contrasts with that of the judge in the San Bernardino case. On Feb. 16, U.S. Magistrate Sheri Pym ordered Apple to provide “reasonable technical assistance” to the FBI to unlock an iPhone belonging to Syed Farook, one of the killers in the San Bernardino shootings. The order calls for Apple to create software that can get around or disable the security option that erases data from an iPhone after 10 unsuccessful attempts to unlock it. Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people and injured 22 others in a shooting rampage on Dec. 2. The radicalized Muslim couple, described in press reports as supporters of terror group ISIS, later died in a gun battle with police. The court case has sparked a fierce debate over encryption that has pit the tech industry and civil libertarians against law enforcement and national security proponents. RELATED: Apple Shareholders Show Support For Company’s Privacy Stance . More Americans Support Feds In Apple-FBI Encryption Fight . Scalper1 News
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