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New Delhi:US-based tech giant Apple has refused to unlock the iPhone of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on the grounds that the data can only be accessed with a password set by the device owner, ThePrint has learnt...
According to a source in the Enforcement Directorate, the ED had approached Apple informally requesting to access Kejriwals phone as part of the investigation in the excise policy scam, but was refused...
There was no written communication but Apple was asked to help with opening Kejriwals phone as it is required to assist in the investigation, but the request was denied, the source said, adding that this is not the first time that Apple denied access to the agency...
Kejriwal was aware of how undue favours were being extended to the licensees like waivers and reduction in the license fee, and the extension of the L-1 license (granted to business entities having wholesale distribution experience in liquor trade) in exchange for kickbacks, according to the ED...
In 2016, Apple CEO Tim Cook told his employees that the refusal to cooperate with a US government to unlock an iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of the two shooters in the San Bernardino attack, was a defence of civil liberties...
