Privacy, Apple, and the FBI
If the
authors of “The Right to Privacy” were alive today, I bet they would have a
field day with the Apple and FBI case. In my opinion, the authors would
completely disagree with the FBI in this case since requesting a backdoor be
put in place is completely an invasion of privacy. It is a hacktivist’s
political grenade. This request is a complete violation of the 4th amendment.
Although the FBI claims they will only utilize this tool against criminals that
break the law, how can we really trust that this would be the case given their
history? We all know the NSA already spies on all U.S citizens. We are the most watched surveyed population in the world.
The U.S completely unchained itself from the constitution. According to the Right
to Privacy; “The design of the
law must be to protect those persons with whose affairs the community has no
legitimate concern, from being dragged into an undesirable and undesired
publicity and to protect all persons, whatsoever; their position or station,
from having matters which they may properly prefer to keep private, made public
against their will. It is the unwarranted invasion of individual privacy which
is reprehended, and to be, so far as possible, prevented.” According to Wired “Apple
is not being asked to unlock an iPhone; it’s being asked to create software
that would help the FBI unlock it. After which, there’s every reason to expect
Apple and every other tech company will be asked to create more software
that could be used to diminish even more civil liberties.” Apple would
cooperate if it was a targeted sort of thing where they felt it was very
important to national security. Privacy has its limits and this case is not a
matter of national security. The FBI used the San Bernardino case as an effective
way to antagonize the public and try to win over the courts.
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Brandeis argues that the right to privacy has a limit (as do all rights) when it's in the interest of public, in this case, the public safety and national security. So that makes him side with the FBI on this one. But the issue will be is whom makes a better argument than can be bought by a judge. I believe that this will head to the SCOTUS.
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ReplyDeleteDisgusting to see them use 14 dead innocent souls to push their shady agenda up to SCOTUS. But, it's just another shameful example of the world we live in I suppose. So when do the other smart device manufacturers get thrown into the mix?
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