Google promise to back Apple in battle against FBI

Feb 29, 2016, 20:50

Apple offers a range of arguments in its motion to dismiss the order requiring it to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation access an iPhone belonging to one of the shooters in last year's San Bernardino attacks. The two were later killed by police. Wait just a minute: Aren't those the same companies that Apple has previously criticized by lobbing veiled accusations that they exploit your personal information - to sell ads - and effectively endanger your privacy? A magistrate Judge initially ruled in the government's favor, but a final hearing will be held on March 22.

The amicus brief process allows an interested party to file its views in a legal case that can then be taken into consideration by the courts.

The filing represents Apple's first official response to last week's order.

It's argued that what Apple is being ordered to do - essentially, build a backdoor to its own technology - is a step too far and sets a troubling precedent.

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Google now plans to file a "friend of the court" brief on Apple's behalf within the next week, a person familiar with the situation said.

"Under the same legal theories advocated by the government here, the government could argue that it should be permitted to force citizens to do all manner of things 'necessary" to assist it in enforcing the laws, ' Apple said.

The FBI wants a public debate about the issues of encryption and security, Comey added. The phone was found in a black Lexus parked outside the residence. "You're the product." But even Apple collects some customer information.

"Apple is being asked to put an Achilles heel on the iPhone", Olson said. As part of the All Writs Act, Apple says, the government needs to prove there's no possible way government investigators can crack the iPhone's encryption without Apple's help.

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Burguan is sanguine about the government's prospects for getting into Farook's iPhone. "We have got to have a stopping point". "Apple is no more connected to this phone than General Motors is to a company vehicle used by a fraudster on his daily commute". "Or that there isn't". Although Comey has asserted the order would apply to Farook's phone only, news outlets have reported that Apple faces court requests from law enforcement authorities across the country to help them unlock data on at least 13 more iPhones and other Apple devices.

The government had the opportunity to seek amendments to existing law to pursue its law enforcement interests, Apple said in its filing. Comey says the issues raised in the Justice Department's dispute with Appl...

Microsoft Vice President Brad Smith, appearing in Congress on Thursday, said, "We do not believe that courts should seek to resolve issues of 21st-century technology with law that was written in the era of the adding machine". "It's very clear Apple has been and wants to continue to do so, but it must have felt that the slope has gotten very slippery", Levchin told "CBS This Morning" Friday.

CEO Tim Cook said in a statement that "the USA government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too unsafe to create".

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"The government suggests this tool could only be used once, on one phone". But Apple still must deal with the short-term request from the courts. He said such matters should be brought before and decided by legislators, not the courts.