Silicon Valley firms rally behind Apple in FBI encryption battle

The US technology industry formally lined up beside Apple on Thursday in the company’s legal fight with the FBI over encryption. The phalanx of Silicon Valley colleagues and rivals, including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Cisco and others filed a joint brief in California’s central district court. A second group of tech firms such as Airbnb, eBay, GitHub, Kickstarter, LinkedIn, Medium, Reddit and Twitter, filed another.
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