Feds Continue to Push for Apple to Help Unlock iPhone in NY Drug Case

The Department of Justice will continue to demand apple to unlock an iPhone in a New York drug case, it said in a legal filing on April 8.

Dec. 7, 2011, file photo, a person stands near the Apple logo at the company's store in Grand Central Terminal, in New York. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File

The Department of Justice will continue to demand that Apple unlock an iPhone in a New York drug case, it said in a legal filing on April 8.

In a letter to Brooklyn judge Margo Brodie, federal prosecutors said they still want an order requiring the Cupertino-based company to help unlock an iPhone.

The government's application is not moot.

— legal document