Apple’s Angry Response to the Department of Justice: A ‘Cheap Shot’ That’s ‘Intended to Smear the Other Side’

iPhone -SmartphoneThe U.S. Department of Justice filed a legal response on Thursday to Apple’s refusal to help the FBI unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, and Apple quickly responded, with general counsel Bruce Sewell delivering a tense and angry response in a conference call with reporters, reports Business Insider.

Sewell called the DOJ response a “cheap shot” and said that its tone “reads like an indictment.”

He was responding to the DOJ’s claim that “Apple’s rhetoric is not only false, but also corrosive of the very institutions that are best able to safeguard our liberty and our rights … .”

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Greater Emphasis on Corporate Compliance Programs

magnifyer-investigate-search-puzzleThe announcement by the Department of Justice Fraud Section that it hired Hui Chen, a lawyer with previous experience as a federal prosecutor and international corporate compliance, as a full-time Foreign Corrupt Practices Act compliance expert shows that compliance should be high on corporate agendas for 2016., writes Sarah C. Baskin in the Corporate Compliance and White Collar Advisor, published by Jackson Lewis.

“The DOJ’s move will likely lead to even greater and closer scrutiny of compliance programs. The first step employers should take in responding to this change is to conduct a prompt and thorough review of their compliance programs, starting with their Code of Conduct, their internal controls, monitoring, hotline, management of investigations and reporting protocols to law enforcement,” Baskin writes.

The article lists the key elements of a good compliance program.

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