Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) has asked FBI Director James Comey to withdraw the bureau’s demand that Apple help unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino, Calif., shooters.
“As a computer science major, I have seen far-reaching unintended consequences when government applies outmoded concepts to our fast-changing technological world,” Lieu wrote in a Feb. 23 letter to Comey.
Last week a federal judge ordered Apple to offer “reasonable technical assistance” to investigators trying to extract data from the iPhone 5C used by Syed Farook. He and his wife murdered 14 people in San Bernardino in December.
