Bill Gates backs FBI iPhone hack request
Bill Gates has broken ranks with Silicon Valley in the stand-off between Apple
and the US government, saying technology companies should be forced to
co-operate with law enforcement in terrorism investigations.(....)
“This is a specific case where the government is asking for access to
information. They are not asking for some general thing, they are asking
for a particular case,” Mr Gates told the Financial Times. (...)
Silicon Valley executives including Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook chief; Jack Dorsey, Twitter founder; and Sundar Pichai,
head of Google, have all sided with Mr Cook. National Security Agency
whistleblower Edward Snowden called the showdown “the most important
tech case in a decade”.
Apple embroiled in phone court fights beyond San Bernardino; cases don’t involve terrorism charges, sources say
by Devlin Barrett
The Wall Street Journal
Feb. 22, 2016 11:36 p.m. ET
The Justice Department is pursuing court orders to force Apple Inc.
to help investigators extract data from iPhones in about a dozen
undisclosed cases around the country, in disputes similar to the current
battle over a terrorist’s locked phone, according to people familiar
with the matter. The other phones are at issue in cases where
prosecutors have sought, as in the San Bernardino, Calif., terror case,
to use an 18th-century law...
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