Apple got into legal trouble when a federal judge ordered it to help the government unlock the iPhone used by Farook. Apple and other technology companies had started to secure their devices and software with high-end encryption in response to concerns regarding digital privacy after thousands of classified National Security Agency (NSA) documents were leaked by its contractor Edward Snowden of thousands of classified NSA documents... .

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WAS APPLE RIGHT?

According to some lawyers, there were human rights concerns to the demand made by the American government to Apple. They opined that if a company like Apple was forced to build software to aid the American government, it could be asked to make similar software available to other countries like China or Middle-East dictatorships. Lawyers pointed out that these authoritarian governments could use the code to monitor the activities of dissidents. In earlier instances, Apple had rejected similar requests by other governments to provide backdoors in its products....

OUTLOOK

With both the government and Apple sticking to their positions, some legal experts opined that the case could reach the country’s Supreme Court. The controversy gained more prominence when the president of USA, Barack Obama, made a passionate appeal to technology companies to build mobile devices in such a way that government could gain access to personal data in cases involving terrorist attacks and child sex abuse..