Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Others File Amicus Briefs in Support of Apple

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Posted March 4, 2016 at 2:06am by Shalom Levytam

Over thirty companies have now filed Amicus Briefs supporting Apple's opposition to an order that would force it to build a backdoor into the iPhone.

Notably, the technology companies are split into two consortiums. One includes: Airbnb, Atlassian, Automattic, CloudFlare, eBay, GitHub, Kickstarter, LinkedIn, Mapbox, Medium, Meetup, Reddit, Square, Squarespace, Twilio, Twitter and Wickr. The other consists of: Amazon, Cisco, Dropbox, Evernote, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nest, Pinterest, Slack, Snapchat, WhatsApp, and Yahoo.

You can read the various briefs using the links below:

Amicus Briefs

Letters to the Court

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Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Others File Amicus Briefs in Support of Apple

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Wil - March 4, 2016 at 4:04pm

Where's Samsung? Is their absence indicative that they'd rather or have been cooperating with backdoor building? On a more optimistic note maybe only companies with US-based HQ can sign? But Atlassian is Australian, so...

don quixote - March 4, 2016 at 3:10pm

They already did this before and they will again. It's just in best public interest that media is on them. Deny, deny, deny. Same thing happened when Project DROPOUTJEEP went public a few years back. Same exact BS FBI with either special crypto software or a backdoor. I figure it was getting abused and leaked so Apple patched it on iPhone 6 ever since.