Should law enforcement have the ability to access encrypted communications? On December 2, 2015 in Southern California 14 people were killed and 22 injured in a horrific terrorist attack performed by Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik. Soon after the shooting the police opened fire, killing the couple. In addition to the shooting, a attempted bombing was unsuccessful. Investigators had begun linking together evidence to uncover the motives behind the couple’s violent outbreak and how it went about undetected. The Justice Department requested Apple to assist the FBI in unlocking Farook’s encrypted iPhone to further the investigation and possibly find evidence linking to other terrorists. This created a national concern for companies/ corporations like Apple who have policies to protect and respect the consumer’s privacy. This also concerned anyone owning a smartphone and/ or computer, those with access to a search engine, and the government themselves.
Despite the rarity of this case, this is not the first situation in which the privacy of an individual has been at war with the safety of a nation. Many other factors come into play when dealing with encrypted data, including competing companies in global markets, and the reliability of a corporation. …show more content…
In the book Revealing Privacy: Debating the Understanding of Privacy, author Margherita Carucci defines contextual privacy as an aid to determine what kind of information shared and gathered on social networks is acceptable. (Carucci 120). Carucci goes on to explain that despite it’s claim, contextual privacy is not too helpful in determining the sphere of justified claims to privacy on social networking sites (Carucci 120). An individual’s digital privacy is determined on what they share on sites and if that is the case, there is no absolute definition to
Despite the rarity of this case, this is not the first situation in which the privacy of an individual has been at war with the safety of a nation. Many other factors come into play when dealing with encrypted data, including competing companies in global markets, and the reliability of a corporation. …show more content…
In the book Revealing Privacy: Debating the Understanding of Privacy, author Margherita Carucci defines contextual privacy as an aid to determine what kind of information shared and gathered on social networks is acceptable. (Carucci 120). Carucci goes on to explain that despite it’s claim, contextual privacy is not too helpful in determining the sphere of justified claims to privacy on social networking sites (Carucci 120). An individual’s digital privacy is determined on what they share on sites and if that is the case, there is no absolute definition to