FBI informed Apple Inc of a vulnerability in its iPhone and iMac software on April 14. However, FBI will not tell Apple how it extracted data from the iPhone 5c belonging to terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook.
Silicon Valley giants continue to support Apple. After the tech giant said that the encryption bill is unworkable, other companies echoed Apple's statements.
Uber's transparency report indicated that the company gave information of its users and drivers to law enforcement agencies and regulators in aid of investigations. Users, however, raised concerns over their privacy and security.
The White House has declined to support a newly proposed bill that will give federal courts authority to order tech companies to assist law enforcement agencies by cracking encrypted data.
The Washington Post opinion-editorial piece published by Apple's Vice-President Craig Federighi, warning that FBI's unlocking the encryption of an iPhone of a slain terrorist will set back national security, gained mixed reactios from critics and supporters.
The United States Justice Department said Apple's arguments over the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone are false. They added that Apple's refusal unlock the encrypted iPhone is just a diversion.
Several departments of the Obama administration remains divided over Apple's encryption issue. Apple fueled a national debate over digital privacy rights and national security when it said that the company no longer wants to serve as the middleman between its customer's phone and the government.
Apple and FBI has faced off before the Congress in line with FBI's request to have Apple help in the unlocking of the iPhone of one of San Bernardino's shooters.
A federal judge in Brooklyn ruled that the government's position in requesting an order to force Apple to unlock a criminal's iphone could produce "impermissibly absurd results."
Apple has filed a legal brief in court to oppose FBI's insistence to break into a password-protected iPhone belonging to one of the shooter of the San Bernardino shooting.
The ongoing battle between Apple and the FBI continues. Apple CEO Tim Cook released a statement saying that the request to open the iPhone of Syed Rizwan Farook is bad for America.
The long battle between Apple and government-ordered encryption of devices has led Apple to suggest the creation of a government panel on the issue in relation to the San Bernardino shooting.
National security and privacy issues are at the center of Apple's refusal to hack the iPhone of San Bernardo shooter. Supporters of both camps have come forward to share what they think.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has opposed the court directive to hack into Rizwan Farook's iPhone, saying it would create a dangerous "backdoor" to the iPhone and give a precedent to allow wider government access to protected consumer date.
On December 2, 14 people were killed by a shooting carried out by a couple in San Bernardino, California. While terrorist group, Isis, has expressed their praise on the said attack, they revealed that they were not in any way behind it.
