The refusal of the company to comply with a court order that requires help unlock a phone reinstalls a heated debate
CUPERTINO.- One of the objects of consumption world’s most wanted now was embroiled in a war between two giants of the United States. The FBI and Apple are facing a legal battle that has the potential to rethink the whole debate that was installed after September 11 about how far the state can invade privacy in the name of national security.
All for iPhone, but not just any, but the terrorist who, along with his wife, killed 14 people and wounded 22 in a center for people with disabilities in San Bernardino, California, in December last year. It is believed that the attackers were followers of the terrorist group Islamic State (EI).
The dispute began when the FBI got a court order forcing Apple to collaborate on iPhone unlocking terrorist. The company refused the request on the grounds that he would have to develop, for the first time, a software that would disable blocking access to their iPhones, and future consequences for the privacy of users would be very dangerous.
The debate spread quickly and put Apple in a delicate political situation that led to its CEO, Tim Cook, plant flag.
“If a court requires us to develop such software, imagine what else could require, perhaps an operating system monitoring or the ability to turn on the camera, “said the night before last Cook in an interview with ABC and added:” at stake are the data security of hundreds of millions of people and creating a dangerous precedent that threatens civil liberty of all. “
” we do not want to create any precedent “, said yesterday James Comey, the number one of the FBI, in an open letter, trying to end doubts about violations security and increasing pressure on Apple to collaborate. “We owe it to the victims. Perhaps the phone contains the key to finding more terrorists.”
According to Comey, tensions between privacy and security “should not be resolved by those who sell objects to live . And they should not be resolved by the FBI. ” Criticism of FBI chief echoes the accusation of several politicians who claim that Apple’s refusal actually responds to marketing reasons because what is at stake are not personal and safety data, but millions of dollars from the sale of their cell.
But Apple is willing to take the case to the Supreme Court of the United States.
for starters, yesterday asked a federal court to dismiss the court order It required to collaborate with the FBI to decrypt an iPhone, stating that the order exceeds the legal authority of the government and violates their constitutional right to freedom of expression.
he also demanded that a special commission be formed in the Congress to discuss the implications of the case for national security and privacy. “The issue should be regulated by a new law,” the company added.
Tim Cook was willing to everything and even asked to speak with President Barack Obama. “It’s not about this phone, but the future,” said the CEO.
Obama, meanwhile, without referring directly to Apple, said keeping safe country must be a shared mission.
and the controversy continues: while the big technology, Twitter, Google and Facebook, defend the position of Apple, Bill Gates broke ranks. In an interview with the Financial Times, the founder of Microsoft said not agree with Cook. “This is a specific case, not general, in which the government requests information,” Gates, comparing the request of the FBI who could do on a particular bank account said.
In the debate public taking place in the United States on the tug of war between Apple and the FBI, reflecting the subsequent dilemma September 11 in which American society was restricted their freedoms and individual guarantees to make more effective the fight against terrorism, a survey of Pew Research Center said that 51% of Americans are in favor and order the FBI believes that Apple must unlock the iPhone. 38% of respondents agreed with Apple, while 11% had no opinion.
However, the company founded by Steve Jobs, Stephen Wozniak and Ronald Wayne goes for more. Its engineers began to develop new security measures that make “impossible” access to a locked iPhone, said The New York Times. The battle is just beginning.
agencies AFP, AP, ANSA and EFE
The privacy above all
“it is not a case of an isolated iPhone. at stake are the data security of hundreds of millions of people and civil freedom of all.” Tim Cook
Combating terrorism
“We do not seek to circulate a master key, but maybe the phone attacker has the key to finding more terrorists. ” James Comey
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