In this Dec. 23, 2013, file photo, a woman using a phone walks past Apple’s logo near its retail outlet in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
NEW YORK — The U.S. Justice Department says it will continue trying to force Apple to reveal a phone’s data in a New York drug case.
The government told a Brooklyn judge Friday it still wants an order requiring Apple’s cooperation even though it no longer needs the company’s help with a phone linked to a mass shooting in California.
An Apple lawyer did not immediately return a request for comment.
The Justice Department recently dropped a legal fight to compel Apple to help it break into an iPhone used by a gunman in the December attack in San Bernardino, California, that killed 14 people.
A magistrate judge had blocked the government from forcing Apple to help in the Brooklyn case. The government appealed to a district judge. TVJ