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Tech giants Google and WhatsApp and whistleblower Edward Snowden are backing Apple’s stance over the encryption technology used in its iPhone smartphones.
Apple has been ordered by a US federal magistrate to help the FBI unlock the iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters, but in a letter published on the company’s website, chief executive Tim Cook said his company would fight the move.
Now Google chief executive Sundar Pichai has given the stance his backing. “Important post by @tim_cook. Forcing companies to enable hacking could compromise users’ privacy,” wrote Google’s boss, as part of a short series of tweets addressing the issue.
Republican candidate Donald Trump attacked Apple in a television interview. “To think that Apple won’t allow us to get into her cellphone? Who do they think they are? No, we have to open it,” said Trump.
“Apple – this is one case and this is a case that certainly we should be able to get into the phone. And we should find out what happened, why it happened, and maybe there’s other people involved. And we have to do that.”
US senator Tom Cotton went further. “The problem of end-to-end encryption isn’t just a terrorism issue. It is also a drug-trafficking, kidnapping and child pornography issue that impacts every state of the Union,” he said in a statement.
“It’s unfortunate that the great company Apple is becoming the company of choice for terrorists, drug dealers and sexual predators of all sorts.”
In the UK, the uncle of Fusilier Lee Rigby, who was murdered in London in 2013 by two Islamic extremists, said Apple was “protecting a murderer’s privacy at the cost of public safety”.
Google, WhatsApp and Snowden back Apple against FBI | Technology | The Guardian
Apple has been ordered by a US federal magistrate to help the FBI unlock the iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters, but in a letter published on the company’s website, chief executive Tim Cook said his company would fight the move.
Now Google chief executive Sundar Pichai has given the stance his backing. “Important post by @tim_cook. Forcing companies to enable hacking could compromise users’ privacy,” wrote Google’s boss, as part of a short series of tweets addressing the issue.
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Republican candidate Donald Trump attacked Apple in a television interview. “To think that Apple won’t allow us to get into her cellphone? Who do they think they are? No, we have to open it,” said Trump.
“Apple – this is one case and this is a case that certainly we should be able to get into the phone. And we should find out what happened, why it happened, and maybe there’s other people involved. And we have to do that.”
US senator Tom Cotton went further. “The problem of end-to-end encryption isn’t just a terrorism issue. It is also a drug-trafficking, kidnapping and child pornography issue that impacts every state of the Union,” he said in a statement.
“It’s unfortunate that the great company Apple is becoming the company of choice for terrorists, drug dealers and sexual predators of all sorts.”
In the UK, the uncle of Fusilier Lee Rigby, who was murdered in London in 2013 by two Islamic extremists, said Apple was “protecting a murderer’s privacy at the cost of public safety”.
Google, WhatsApp and Snowden back Apple against FBI | Technology | The Guardian
