Google, WhatsApp, Edward Snowden and even Donald Trump have weighed in on Apple’s decision to fight federal orders to assist the FBI in unlocking the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters. While many of the tech giants are backing Apple’s decision to not “build a backdoor to the iPhone,” others, such as Donald Trump, have attacked the company’s decision. US Senator Tom Cotton accused the company of being the choice of “terrorists, drugs dealers and sexual predators of all sorts.” Others have accused them of “protecting a murderer’s privacy at the cost of public safety.” Will Apple have to fold to the FBI? Sasha Kai Parker and Margaret J. Howell discuss the government’s surveillance reach and the bigger issues surrounding encryption on the Lip News.
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