Apple Beefs Up iPhone Security Measures Amid FBI Feud (Report)

Tech giant strengthens encryption in light of recent FBI investigation into San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone

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Apple is reportedly working on new security measures for the iPhone that would make the device even more difficult for government and law enforcement agencies to unlock.

According to a story published Wednesday in the New York Times, the tech company is developing the new security measures as a result of its ongoing legal case with the FBI, which wants the company’s help in bypassing a lock on an iPhone used by one of the shooters responsible for last fall’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif.

Last week, a federal court ordered Apple to help the FBI unlock an iPhone linked to the mass shooting that killed 14 people in December.

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