As the battle between the FBI and Apple continues to grow, Apple CEO Tim Cook has stated his intentions to take the issue to the United States' highest courts if necessary. In an interview with ABC News, Cook describes the FBI's request that Apple reengineer its operating system to give the agency access to data as "the software equivalent of cancer."

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Apple's decision to fight the FBI's court order—one enabled by a law over two centuries old—has been supported by a number of other high profile tech companies including Google and Facebook. Apple has until Friday to submit its formal appeal to a California court's initial order that it help the FBI, and has not done so yet, though an official rejection of the order seems inevitable.

Source: ABC News

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