Trump accuses Apple of refusing to unlock criminals’ iPhones, setting the stage for a fight
US President Donald Trump has joined the battle over the FBI asking Apple's iPhone maker to help unlock two iPhones used by the gunman responsible for the shooting last month in Pensacola.
Trump attacked Apple for criticizing it for refusing to decrypt the phones despite having benefited from government trade aid, and Trump's tweets came amid an investigation into the shooting of three Americans in Pensacola, Florida, last month.
This episode represents the latest wave of privacy debate between technology companies such as Apple, Facebook and authorities, and technology companies argue that strong encryption protects the privacy and security of their users, while law enforcement officials say criminals have used technology to evade justice.
Law enforcement agencies have called on technology companies to provide a way to break encryption, drawing on a number of notable issues such as last year's shooting in Pensacola and the 2015 shooting in San Bernardino, California.
Trump attacked Apple saying: We are helping Apple all the time in trade and many other issues, yet refuses to decipher the phones used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements, adding, "They must immediately stand with us and help our great country."
Apple said it could not access passcode-encrypted data stored on an iPhone and that it had to create a specific tool to do so, known in the technology industry as the "back door".
However, the company can deliver data stored on cloud storage servers to law enforcement officials, which often includes backup copies of iPhones, including iMessages.
The company has refused to be described by Attorney General Bill Barr as having provided no substantive assistance, after he called on her to help the FBI open two iPhones involved in the Pensacola case, and the company said it responded to seven separate legal requests from federal investigators in December Starting from the day of the shooting,
The New York Times reported in a report that Apple is working internally to direct this position towards third-party security companies, and the report said: Tim Cook's team now aims to direct the current position toward an external decision that does not involve the company's violation of its security, even as it prepares For a potential legal battle over this issue.
We are helping Apple all of the time on TRADE and so many other issues, and yet they refuse to unlock phones used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements. They will have to step up to the plate and help our great Country, NOW! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) ١٤ يناير ٢٠٢٠
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