Computers, Privacy & the Constitution

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  All eyes are on Apple as it takes on the US government in possibly the highest-profile fight in privacy and technology. Posing as a defender of civil liberties and customer privacy, Apple is vociferously defying a federal judge’s order to assist the FBI in its investigation of an alleged terrorist’s iPhone. Under its rationale, a loss to the US government in this case would lead to a dangerous precedent of Apple compromising its own security system and “undermin[ing] decades of security advances that protect [] customers”; assistance to the government would be equivalent to creating a “master key.” Furthermore, such a move would not only jeopardize security concerns vis-à-vis the American government and people, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook and other Apple officials, but create a watershed loss of security for those living under authoritarian governments. If the United States courts could compel security compromises, what is to stop Apple from being forced to cooperate with surveillance-happy governments such as Russia and China?

Thus Apple is poised to stand as the unwavering and uncompromising defender of privacy rights around the world. Particularly with regards to foreign markets, Apple’s hardline stance seems to suggest that the security of their products is of the utmost concern.


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