Apple recently took measures to enhance user privacy in iOS 8. Only users are allowed access to photos, messages, and emails on their device. Data is shielded from everyone including police. Android has also claimed to have done the same. The director of the FBI argues this information could help cases involving kidnapping or child exploitation or terrorism. In reality, this information could still be accessed by the police but only with a warrant in hand. David Oscar Markus, a Miami defense attorney with expertise in police searches and seizures explains, "You can't have it both ways. If there's a backdoor, it can be exploited. The government shouldn't get to pick and choose what's protected."
I believe the FBI, along with other parts of the government, shouldn't be involved in our everyday personal lives. There are other ways to "catch the bad guy" without looking through all of America's texts and pictures. The government can't violate our rights without angering citizens no matter how hard they try to explain to us their intentions. This can even be related back to the build up to the revolution. Even though the king believed the taxes would help their country as a whole, colonists still believed taxes were unfair and refused to pay them on their behalf.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/13/technology/security/fbi-apple/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
This is completely accurate. It irks me that there police officers can get their hands on private information so easily without a warrant. I know it doesn't apply to all cases but if they cannot get a judge to sign the warrant in the first place, then they should probably be out doing something else instead of trying to sneak through the window.
ReplyDeletevery controversial topic... But I would have to agree with you Lindsey. the govt can catch pedophiles and other violators with other techniques... (Jose Lopez 4th prd)
ReplyDeleteWhile polices claims are plausible, the government shouldn't interfere with these products. Everyone wants their right to privacy because privacy equals freedom.
ReplyDeleteLauren Keuhmeier, Per. 2