This is such an incredibly important issue - whether U.S. citizens have the right to privacy of devices they purchase and own. I hope Apple prevails. Its telling that its only Apple the govt is going after time after time....i.e. presumably the other guys have all sold their customers out (Google did not speak up after the White House FBI Encryption meeting last month which was a huge dissapointment...now its just down to Apple and the roll your own crowd).
Truly the real problem of the courts ruling in favor of the government is down the line (not right now), of not having the right to privacy for the citizenry is that at some point, someone in the government will be conniving enough (McCarthy, Hoover, Nixon, Trump?) to view themselves and their desires as king and abuse this power. The amount of information on our devices, the cloud etc. and the power for oppression of the citizenry it allows would make the East German Stasi blush.
Could you see Trump saying lets have Google list all the Muslims households in the U.S. who have ever done a search on Isis and publish the list (as President he could do that with the current FISA courts and FISA laws in place)?
Truly the real problem of the courts ruling in favor of the government is down the line (not right now), of not having the right to privacy for the citizenry is that at some point, someone in the government will be conniving enough (McCarthy, Hoover, Nixon, Trump?) to view themselves and their desires as king and abuse this power. The amount of information on our devices, the cloud etc. and the power for oppression of the citizenry it allows would make the East German Stasi blush.
Could you see Trump saying lets have Google list all the Muslims households in the U.S. who have ever done a search on Isis and publish the list (as President he could do that with the current FISA courts and FISA laws in place)?
