House Committee on the Judiciary Hearings: The Encryption Tightrope — Balancing Americans’ Security and Privacy
Archive | March, 2016
The FBI vs. Apple case is about unlocking your life
Here is some food for thought, on the FBI vs. Apple case about unlocking the San Bernardino shooters iPhone: It’s not only about your phone calls and text messages, it’s about your entire life.
An iPhone contains apps, surf history and search history that would crack open your private life completely in front of Big Brother.
In a text, Rick Falkvinge lists a few examples…
- What news articles you read, for how long, and in what order
- Your travel plans
- Your dating habits
- What you’re buying
- What you’re thinking of buying but didn’t
- Whom you’re in touch with but didn’t talk to
- What you were looking for more information about, and when
- What link(s) you follow, given a selection
- Your physical movement through cities, and within a city
- …the list goes on.
Is this really information that should be in government hands?
Falkvinge: Using legacy phonecall wiretapping laws to justify Internet wiretapping is obscene: immense expansion of surveillance »
Slate: An iPhone Is an Extension of the Mind »
“Federal Judge Takes Apple’s Side vs. Feds in New York”
We have a new wrinkle in the encryption fight between Apple and the FBI. In a drug case, a magistrate judge in New York’s Eastern District has ruled that Apple does not need to assist the feds in unlocking a person’s phone and that the All Writs Act does not extend to such a demand.
Reason.com: Federal Judge Takes Apple’s Side vs. Feds in New York »