Microsoft, Google Join Rivals to Back Apple in FBI Fight
- Tech competitors argue privacy, security threatened in case
- San Bernardino shooting victim among those supporting Apple
Why 35 Tech Firms Are Backing Apple in Encryption Debate
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Tech giants including Microsoft Corp. and Google set aside often fierce rivalries to back Apple Inc. in its fight against a judge’s order to help unlock the iPhone of a dead terrorist.
Fifteen companies, including Facebook Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., seek in their so-called friend-of-the-court brief to undo the order for Apple to create software to help the FBI unlock an iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook, who died in a shootout with law enforcement after killing 14 people at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, in December.