US founders would be ‘appalled’ by US government request
Apple Inc says the US government officials can do anything they “dream up” and have requests that would appall the country’s founders.
The tech giant made the Tuesday statement in its final brief before a court hearing next week.
On February 16, a federal judge ordered the giant tech company to assist the Federal Bureau of Investigation in cracking an iPhone belonging to Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the two terrorists who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, earlier.
Apple has argued that helping crack the phone in question would lead to less secure iPhones for all customers and that current law does not force the company to comply.
"According to the government, short of kidnapping or breaking an express law, the courts can order private parties to do virtually anything the Justice Department and FBI can dream up,'' read court documents filed by the company. "The Founders would be appalled.''
On February 16, a federal judge ordered the giant tech company to assist the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in opening Syed Rizwan Farook’s phone.
Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, were shot dead in a shootout with police hours after the massacre in a Department of Public Health training event and holiday party on December 2, 2015, which left 14 dead and 22 injured.
The tech giant argues that the FBI’s demand to roll back data protections to iOS 7 in the iPhone 5c used by Farook, would give authorities the chance to access other iPhones as well.
Apart from that, the US government is infamous for privacy violation, no matter of its citizens or even world leaders.
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