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Should Apple Comply with the US Government's Requests to Unlock iPhones? This case considers the long-term implications of Apple's decision to deny local and federal requests to unlock data on iPhones. It all started with the terrorist attack perpetrated by Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik. The couple killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in 2016. The FBlI wanted to see the contents of Farook's phone in order to gain information about others who may have been involved with the terrorist attack. It wanted Apple to "create a special version of the iPhone's software that only works on the recovered device. Apple has to sign it with its secret keys in order to install it on the subject's iPhone. This custom version will 'bypass or disable the auto-erase function' so it will not wipe the phone after a number of failed passcode guesses."129 Although Apple had already provided the government "what it has that fits the usual kind of document demands, including information the terrorists had stored in Apple's cloud service," it was not enough. The terrorists had quit backing up their phone, which forced the FBI to find a way to bypass Apple's security features. Apple had no way of doing this 130 Apple refused to comply with the request, leading to a court order demanding that it create the software needed to bypass the phone's security features In an interview with ABC, Apple CEO Tim Cook said, "The government shouldn't be able to force Apple to compromise the privacy of hundreds of millions of iPhone users in order to unlock a terrorist's iPhone." He added that it would "force Apple to create 'the software equivalent of cancer." The company further contends that coding a back door' in the iPhone would compromise the security of hundreds of millions of its customers. When pressed about the fact that Apple's cooperation might prevent other terrorist attacks, Cook replied, "Some things are hard, and some things are right, and some things are both. This is one of those things." CEOs Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Sundar Pichai of Google supported Cook's decision 131 Page 461 As a court showdown loomed in early 2016, the FBl sought the help of hackers to break into the device. Companies in both the United States and Israel participated in the effort and one of them came up with a solution.132 The government then dropped its legal case against Apple. Although the immediate case of Farook's phone is over, long-term implications about encryption-protected technology remain. According to US Justice Department spokesperson Melanie Newman, "It remains a priority for the government to ensure that law enforcement can obtain crucial digital information to protect national security and public safety, either with cooperation from relevant parties, or through the court system when cooperation fails." In response, Apple says it "believes deeply that people in the United States and around the world deserve risk. 133 data protection, security, and privacy. Sacrificing one for the other only puts people and countries at greater USA Today concluded that the government's interest in this issue is unlikely to go away because state and local authorities are confronted with more than 1,000 locked smartphones and other devices, blocking access to potential evidence." A case in point led the Justice Department to seek a court order in April 2016 that would force Apple to unlock an iPhone taken during a drug investigation in Brooklyn. According to The Wall Street Journal, "The technical issues in the Brooklyn case are somewhat different than in San Bernardino because they involve different iPhone hardware and software. Apple has a technique for pulling data from the Brooklyn phone but is resisting applying it, saying compelling it to do so would amount to government overreach and an invasion of customers' privacy. 135 Cook is adamant in his resolve. He said, "We will not shrink from this responsibility We need to decide as a nation how much power the government should have over our data and over our privacy. 134 136 Solving the Challenge Where do you stand on this issue of forcing high-tech firms such as Apple to accommodate governmental requests for unlocking phones? 1. I think national security is more important than privacy. After all, we are talking about unlocking the phones of criminals. Technology firms should be forced to comply with government officials' requests to unblock encrypted devices. 2. Although our data and privacy need to be protected, I think Apple and other technology companies should be forced to comply only when the case involves terrorism. Encrypted devices should not be unlocked for investigations of other criminal activities. 3. The privacy of our data and phone contents must be protected. I am not in favor of forcing Apple or any technology firm to unblock encrypted devices. 4. Identify another option.Explanation / Answer
Below is where I stand on this issue of forcing high-tech firms such as Apple to accommodate governmental requests for unlocking phones -
4. Identify another option.
Though data privacy of customers is important as any breach would lead to losses to the customers financially or in other ways in extreme cases, national security should be a priority when the data protection and encryption are misused for terrorist and other anti-national activities. Hence, it is important that the solution inclines more towards national security than data privacy. The access to the unblocked encrypted devices should only be resided with a select few in the National Investigative Agency and the top security officials involved in high-profile crimes and terrorist activities to ensure the activity is in safe hands while ensuring firms like Apple comply or agree to the government requests.