User:Msimko/Research Paper 1

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My paper details the dispute between the FBI and the tech company Apple. After a shooting occured in California earlier this year, the FBI requested that apple give them a backdoor into the IPhone owned by the man who commited the shooter. Apple however argued that this would set a bad precedent and would give the FBI access into all IPhones that have been ever made. Other tech companies argued for Apple's side agreeing with their point and saying how it would hurt Apple's business or theirs if they were in the same situation later on. The other side of the coin is that this extra step into a terrorists phone could help save lives and that is the reason that the FBI is fighting so hard to gain access into this phone and others like it.

Apple does not want to create this backdoor into their products as they feel they would lose all of their customer's trust and lose those who are willing to buy almost every new product that they make. Other companies like McAfee have come forward to say that can break into Apple's phones and would be willing to do so for the government if it meant that Apple did not have to. The FBI does not feel that the tech company has the right to withhold the information from them that is on the phone. The govenment feels that this is a matter of national security and to protect the country and its citizens they need to be able to access the phone and others like it so that they can do their job.