Court Orders Apple, Inc. to Create New Technology Undermining its Encryption
On February 16, 2016, a United States Federal Magistrate in California issued an order igniting a nation-wide debate over privacy and data security. Apple notes while it believes the FBI’s intentions are good, what the FBI seeks has considerable implications. The FBI using an obscure law, the All Writs Act of 1789, obtained an order from the Federal Court compelling Apple to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, removing security features and developing new software capabilities to the operating system bypassing all encryption. Apple is being ordered to create new technology to undermine its privacy-protection encryption. According to... Read More