Despite Apple's Privacy Pledge, Cops Can Still Pull Data Off a Locked iPhone

The method for extracting data requires access to the phone and the user's laptop. When someone has physical access to a device, the vast majority of security goes out of the window (sans disk encryption).

This is very different from remote monitoring of a user's data in Apple's data center.

Obviously, privacy needs to be addressed in the larger political arena, however Apple's moves here should be applauded.

I hope there's a future feature to disable pairing records and require the phone to be unlocked every time it is connected to a computer (before it can be synced). I find that I rarely need to sync with a computer, so I would not be bothered by such a requirement.

TL;DR: A previously trusted/paired computer can read data on an iPhone. The pairing code can by copied to other computers (via restoring from backup etc).

So use full-disk encryption on your computer and backups as well.