Unlock The Iphone Persuasive Essay

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“The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has dropped its lawsuit against Apple, ending its desire to force the company to create software to unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino, California, gunmen”(Randall G. Holcombe). Wednesday, December 2 a gunman and his wife killed 14 people in a mass shooting in San Bernardino California. The FBI took over the investigation and found the suspect’s phone which happen to be an iPhone. The Federal Bureau Investigation asked Tim Cook, who is the CEO of Apple to make a new software that could unlock the suspect’s phone but Tim refused. The FBI should not have put up a lawsuit against Apple, just because they did not make a software to unlock the gunman's phone. Because the FBI could have used that piece of technology for more things than the just using it to unlock the suspect’s phone, that is a …show more content…
This is why many Americans are happy about Apple making the right decision and not letting the FBI having access to the gunman's phone. Furthermore, many citizens are still worried that the FBI or other official government agencies can track them down and invade their privacy. Apple taking the position that it did shut down a chance that another country like China could force Apple to unlock a suspect’s phone, that committed a crime in that country(Holcombe). So not only does that leave Americans relieved that Apple made the right decision, it also pleases the Chinese citizens as well. Although there will be another incident similar to the FBI versus Apple, and it may come out as a different outcome and leave the American citizens to worry and possibly the entire human population that owns an iPhone scared as

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