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MARCH 22, 2016
The tension between the desire of government agencies to gain more access with greater ease, and the public’s evolving perception of data privacy rights, is ongoing and writ large in the case of FBI vs. Apple, which brings the complexities regarding security technology such as encryption to light.
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MAY 12, 2016
The head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Director James Comey, said on Wednesday (May 11) that more litigation looms over devices that are mobile and consumer-oriented and that encryption remains a form of “essential tradecraft” among terrorist groups, as reported by Reuters.
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MAY 25, 2016
Apple’s encryption battle against the FBI may have simmered down, but Apple is not backing down on further bolstering the security of its devices. In his time at Apple, Callas built an encryption system to safeguard data stored on Mac computers. Callas’ appointment comes just weeks after the FBI spent $1.34
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MARCH 24, 2016
A media outlet in Israel is reporting that an Israeli company has been tasked with helping the FBI gain access into the iPhone owned by one of the shooters in last year’s San Bernardino shooting. As the FBI continued to conduct its own research and as a result of the worldwide publicity and attention on this case, others outside the U.S.
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APRIL 7, 2016
The Apple-FBI encryption saga appears to be tempered — for now — but the debate about what role the federal government has on the subject is just getting started. And then, of course, there’s the debate going on over privacy and civil liberties. But for now, the debate continues.
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APRIL 14, 2016
In order to access the San Bernardino terrorist’s locked iPhone, the FBI reportedly called on the help of professional hackers. Sources explained that the researchers who helped the FBI specialize in exposing security vulnerabilities in software and were paid a one-time flat fee for their services.
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MARCH 1, 2016
29) that could set precedent for the company’s ongoing battle with the FBI in the San Bernardino iPhone case. And similar to the current case that’s causing so much controversy in the political and tech worlds, Apple pitched consumer privacy as the reason to not extract data from the iPhone.
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