Apple announced it would fight the United States Government on the court order requiring them to develop a custom version of its iOS operating system. The FBI wants to hack into an iPhone that belonged to suspected terrorist, Syed Rizwan Farook, who shot and killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California in December 2015. In February, U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym of California ordered Apple to disable the iPhone's auto erase function to assist the FBI to gain access to the suspects' phone, to confirm any ties to ISIS. At this time, Apple does not have the means to disable the auto erase function, and has denied, the court order, siting protection of their customer's privacy. Apple should not be forced by the government to jeopardize
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Apparently, they can also ignore the constitution by attempting to violate the rights of those that would need to invent the software and to the rights of the customers of Apple. Rather than asking for legislative action through Congress, the FBI is proposing an unprecedented use of the All Writs Act of 1789 to justify an expansion of its authority. If the government can use the All Writs Act to have access to unlock your iPhone, it would have the power to reach into anyone’s device to capture their data. The government could extend this breach of privacy and demand that Apple builds surveillance software to intercept your messages, access your health records or financial data, track your location, or even access your phone’s microphone or camera without your …show more content…
The Government's fight against terrorism to protect the American People would require it to police and establish dominance over individual technology companies. Most technology companies have been steadily increasing their use of safeguards following recent hacking attacks and revelations from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, so accessing phones will continue to become even more difficult for the FBI and other agencies. The American people should assist in any way possible to prevent any type of terrorist activity and Apple has offered their cooperation to the best of their ability, but the government should not force them to create a feature that could potentially cause more harm than good. Criminals will soon be able to use that software to hack into airplanes, telephones, health records, and financial records. Who are the people that get to decide who the good and bad people are? Once identified as a bad person, will you lose and should you lose, all of your rights? Will this ability to break into encrypted data be used only for identified terrorists or would it also be for suspected terrorists? Should we spy on every person who has broken a law? Who will police the government while they are policing the people in America? Someone would need to write laws
Apparently, they can also ignore the constitution by attempting to violate the rights of those that would need to invent the software and to the rights of the customers of Apple. Rather than asking for legislative action through Congress, the FBI is proposing an unprecedented use of the All Writs Act of 1789 to justify an expansion of its authority. If the government can use the All Writs Act to have access to unlock your iPhone, it would have the power to reach into anyone’s device to capture their data. The government could extend this breach of privacy and demand that Apple builds surveillance software to intercept your messages, access your health records or financial data, track your location, or even access your phone’s microphone or camera without your …show more content…
The Government's fight against terrorism to protect the American People would require it to police and establish dominance over individual technology companies. Most technology companies have been steadily increasing their use of safeguards following recent hacking attacks and revelations from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, so accessing phones will continue to become even more difficult for the FBI and other agencies. The American people should assist in any way possible to prevent any type of terrorist activity and Apple has offered their cooperation to the best of their ability, but the government should not force them to create a feature that could potentially cause more harm than good. Criminals will soon be able to use that software to hack into airplanes, telephones, health records, and financial records. Who are the people that get to decide who the good and bad people are? Once identified as a bad person, will you lose and should you lose, all of your rights? Will this ability to break into encrypted data be used only for identified terrorists or would it also be for suspected terrorists? Should we spy on every person who has broken a law? Who will police the government while they are policing the people in America? Someone would need to write laws