Apple: throughout Silicon Valley with Cupertino against the FBI – AGI – Agenzia Journalistic Italy

(AGI) – Rome, Feb. 18 – After the CEO of Google, Sundar Pinchai, throughout Silicon Valley is in favor ad Apple, Tim Cook, who has decided not to comply with the order of the judge who asked the company to provide the FBI technical assistance to derive useful information from the iPhone Syed Rizwan, one of the two bombers of the San Bernardino shootout, in California, which last December 2 caused 14 victims. The taking of more ‘important position comes from a note of the’ Reform Government Surveillance ‘(RGS), an association that includes the major giants of the digital economy: AOL, Apple itself, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo and many others. “RGS believes that it is extremely important to deter terrorists and criminals from helping the authorities’ to respond to legal requests for information to keep us all safe,” the statement said, “you should not, however, ‘asking to technology companies to build’ backdoor ‘for technologies that help keep the information of their users safe. the companies are members of Rgs remain committed to providing the authorities’ whose help they need while protecting the safety of their users and their data. ” Apart Pinchai, but are ‘few top managers in the industry who spoke in a personal capacity. Facebook, requested by Business Insider, and ‘entrenched behind a’ no comment ‘. And ‘but’ expressed on the matter Jan Koum, the creator of WhatsApp, the successful application of messaging today part of the empire of Mark Zuckerberg. “I have always admired Tim Cook for his views on Apple’s privacy and efforts to protect users ‘data and I could not be more’ agree with everything you said,” said Koun, then echoing comments Pinchai: “we must not allow the creation of this dangerous precedent, and now ‘at stake is our freedom’”. Speaks of a “dangerous precedent” that “threatens the safety of users” also Mark Surman, executive director of Mozilla, who told Wired that the companies in the industry “should be encouraged to strengthen the safety of their products resolutely, rather than to undermine it “. Twitter has, for its part, reiterated what was written at the time of the petition ‘Save Crypto’: “We reject any proposal that claims by the companies a deliberate weakening of the safety of their products through the backdoor, forced decryption or any other means”. (AGI)
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