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Some of you may remember the case where the FBI requested Applu to allow him access to the locked iPhone andchatthe criminal act – there was also a demand to create back doors for the relevant authorities and bodies involved in criminal proceedings. Apple has since become known as a company that defends its customers' privacy at all costs. Now, the first case has come to light where the FBI ordered a suspect to unlock his iPhone X via Face IDThis is not subject to the same protection laws as the PIN, so agents could have made this request based on the available information.

According to the server Apple Insider This is the first time in the world that investigators have taken this step. The incident occurred on August 10th of this year, when the FBI searched Grant Michalske's home in Columbus, Ohio. It was a search as part of an investigation into a child abuse case. The case was first reported by Forbes, citing court documents. With a search warrant in hand, Special Agent David Knight ordered Michalske to, with the help of Face ID unlocked his iPhoneFor example, Kik conversations were found on the phone Messengerin which the twenty-eight-year-old Michalski, among other things, corresponded with an undercover police officer.

Unlocking Face ID was not as successful as investigators had expected. While Knight found some evidence when searching the seized iPhone, some data could not be accessed because the FBI did not know the device's passcode. In order to transfer data from an iPhone to another device, a passcode must be entered after the phone has been locked for more than an hour. According to Forbes magazine, this is where Knight and his colleagues seem to have made a mistake. Knight admitted that they could not obtain data on application usage or deleted files. However, he also states that the relevant authorities in Ohio have technological devices capable of obtaining the relevant data without entering a passcode. Most likely, these were devices from Cellebrite and Grayshift.

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