The Importance Of Privacy Vs. Security

Isn´t the security of U.S. citizens more important than the privacy of phones? Syed Rizwan Farook was one of the shooters in December 2015 during the San Bernardino shootings. The FBI wanted to unlock his phone in order to find out more information about the shooting and to discover the other individuals that were part of it. The FBI took his phone to Apple and the Apple members refused to unlock the phone. That started a huge controversy of security vs. privacy. Security is more important than privacy and it should be unlocked because the killer can put more people in danger if he is not sent to jail, there would be more dangerous situations that can happen if the phone could not be unlocked, and the FBI could have found all the criminals faster and prevent them from doing more harm towards the U.S. citizens. The safety of U.S citizens is definitely more important and Apple should unlock the killer´s phone. The killer can put more people in danger if he is loose and that can be serious towards the citizens of the U.S. Citizens and they should feel safe wherever they are and if a killer is loose then it can be serious towards the safety of citizens …show more content…
The killers can put people in more dangerous situations and according to an article in Wall Street Journal online, ¨In May 2011, the FBI learned from a confidential source that Mr. Dears might be engaged in human trafficking activities. While conducting surveillance, the agents witnessed Mr. Dears "utilizing a cellular telephone frequently for a period of nearly six hours" despite having previously denied to his parole agent that he possessed a cellular phone¨. Human trafficking is a dangerous situation as well as putting people in danger. The government officials would have found out about the situation quicker if any cellular company would have unlocked the phone. The safety is definitely more important in situations like