FBI Director Comey: New iPhone Encryption Shields Criminals from Investigators

By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com

Apple’s privacy features on the new iPhone and iPad protect pedophiles, terrorists and other criminals because investigators can’t access the information, FBI Director James Comey said.

The new encryption scrambles information as it travels through Apple services.

Comey isn’t happy about that.

“The notion that people have devices… that with court orders, based on a showing of probable cause in a case involving kidnapping or child exploitation or terrorism, we could never open that phone? My sense is that we’ve gone too far when we’ve gone there,” Comey said in an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes.”

Comey compared the iPhones to “cars with trunks that couldn’t ever be opened by law enforcement with a court order.”

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