Lynch: ‘We do not want a backdoor’ into Apple

Published March 9, 2016 4:25pm ET



Attorney General Loretta Lynch insisted Wednesday in front of a Senate panel that the federal government is not asking Apple to unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters in order to break or weaken private sector encryption.

“We do not want a backdoor into Apple or anyone else’s technology,” Lynch told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday morning. “What we are asking for is for Apple to comply with a valid court order.”

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