Apple helps FBI nab cop car firebomber after refusing to unlock San Bernardino gunman's iPhone

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Apple CEO Tim Cook resisted the FBI's request in 2016 to unlock the iPhone of a suspect in the San Bernardino shooting.

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Apple Inc., which refused to unlock the iPhone of the San Bernardino terrorists, used iCloud data to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrest a man who firebombed police cars during Black Lives Matter protests.

Last week, officials charged Kelly Thomas Jackson—the 20-year-old suspect—with two counts of arson and two counts of unlawful possession of a destructive device for his alleged activities that took place at the protest that turned violent in downtown Seattle. A demonstrator watches a fire burn in the street after clashing with law enforcement near the Seattle Police Departments East Precinct shortly after midnight on June 8, 2020 in Seattle, Washington.The FBI received a tip off to Jackson's involvement, before obtaining Verizon records that confirmed his location at the time of the incident, according to a search warrant obtained by the outlet.

Apple is transparent about sharing government requests for customer data from all over the world. The company publishes atwice a year disclosing the number of requests to their website. According to the data, the tech giant returned 3,645 of the 4,095 U.S. requests on user accounts for the second half of 2019 and 3,259 of the 3,619 for the first half of 2019.

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