[telecom] Apple will reportedly unlock your iPhone for police, but there's a wait list

Apple will reportedly unlock your iPhone for police, but there's a wait list

The volume of requests has created at least a seven-week wait for law enforcement.

by Andrew Cunningham May 10 2013

If your smartphone is encrypted and protected by a long passcode, you're going to keep most people from being able to get at the data stored on it. However, companies like Apple and Google are being asked by law enforcement officials to bypass these protections to aid in investigations, and the frequency of requests is creating lengthy wait lists-one agent at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) was reportedly told by an Apple legal representative that the agency would need to wait at least seven weeks to have a phone unlocked.

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