SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday in an attempt to obtain any secret court orders forcing companies like Apple Inc (>> Apple Inc.) or Google (>> Alphabet Inc) to decrypt user communications.

The tech advocacy group's lawsuit, filed in San Francisco federal court, seeks to force DOJ to disclose whether it has ever sought or obtained a decryption order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

(Reporting by Dan Levine; Editing by Bernard Orr)

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