![]() Satya Nadella is CEO of Microsoft, one of the companies supporting Apple. ![]() ( We first saw them over on TechCrunch.) One, filed by Airbnb, Atlassian, Automattic, CloudFlare, eBay, Github, Kickstarter, LinkedIn, Mapbox, Medium, Meetup, Reddit, Square, Squarespace, Twilio, Twitter, and Wickr, argues that the "extraordinary and unprecedented effort to compel a private company to become the government's investigative arm not only has no legal basis under the All Writs Act or any other law, but threatens the core principles of privacy, security, and transparency that underline the fabric of the internet." On Thursday, two amicus briefs were filed by nearly three dozen of the biggest US tech companies defending Apple's position. The legal battle has thrust encryption and cybersecurity onto the US national agenda during an election year, divided public opinion, and pitted the might of the US Justice Department against one of the world's most powerful companies. "At stake is the data security of hundreds of millions of law-abiding people, and setting a dangerous precedent that threatens everyone's civil liberties," CEO Tim Cook wrote in an internal memo to Apple employees. Using the 227-year-old All Writs Act, the FBI is trying to compel Apple to build a new version of the phone's operating system, iOS, that would remove certain security practices, letting the FBI rapidly guess every possible passcode without fear of wiping the data on the phone.īut Apple is refusing, arguing that creating this new software would be too dangerous. ![]() But because the phone is encrypted, law-enforcement officials can't access any data on the device. ![]() The FBI believes that the phone, which was in the possession of Syed Farook before he was killed during the attacks, could contain clues as to his motivations and potentially help prevent future terrorist attacks. ![]() Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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