– The standoff between the American government and Apple looks set to continue. According to the “ Wall Street Journal ” The Senate Intelligence Committee is working on a bill that will make it a criminal offense to the choice made by Cupertino , which does not respect the decision of a court asks the giant to partner with the government in decrypt the information of ‘ iPhone of the San Bernardino killer.
the move could exacerbate the standoff between Washington and Silicon Valley, since Thursday also Facebook and Google have made it known to support Apple’s positions, which refused to create a backdoor into the iPhone’s operating system to allow the authorities to decrypt the phone messages of Rizwan Syed Farook.
the bill comes from Richard Burr, a Republican head of the Intelligence Committee the Senate, but he has not yet finished the draft. And according to the Wall Street Journal for now there is not even a political agreement in what promises to be a very difficult election year. So for Burr might be very complex to have bipartisan support for a bill that would be perceived by the public as a new attack on their freedom, after the Datagate scandal.
Moreover, in recent years a growing number of companies created encryption systems accessible only to two people who have exchanged a message. A decision repeatedly attacked by politicians and police who instead would like to have to go in and decrypt messages possibilities (with the approval of a judge and in extraordinary cases).
But technological groups and various associations the protection of privacy argue that it is wrong for two reasons: on the one hand would be an intrusion into the private sphere of a person and would set a precedent for further raids. Other potentially would give the keys of access to hackers and foreign governments to messages that should remain secret.
Burr spent months lobbying groups on technology, so that they worked more collaboratively with Washington. Especially in cases in which these technologies are used by criminals, as in fact has happened in San Bernardino. In December, together with the democratic Dianne Feinstein had submitted a paper to ask the social media to warn Washington about online terrorist activity. For now the bill is not advanced, although several tech groups have increased their attention to prevent terrorists messages from going out on the web through their platforms.
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