Counting the Cost – Apple versus the FBI

A court order demanding Apple help the US government unlock the encrypted iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters is having implications far beyond this one case.

Pitting law enforcement against civil liberties advocates, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is demanding that Apple help the FBI bypass security features of an iPhone recovered from Syed Rizwan Farook, who, along with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people in December 2015 during a mass shooting.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is fighting the order, calling it an “overreach by the US government,” NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has called it the “the most important tech case in a decade,” while civil liberties advocates have accused the US government of using the case to establish a dangerous legal precedent.

Ross Schulman, a senior policy counsel at the Open Technology Institute, joins Counting the Cost to discuss Apple’s fight with the FBI over encryption.

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