12 more Apple devices on FBI list, document reveals
Despite Apple’s rejection of an FBI request to open a “backdoor” to the iPhone of one of San Bernardino attack terrorists and the government pledge that it will not be used to break into other Apple products, a newly court document lists 12 additional requests.
Released in the Eastern District of New York on Tuesday, the unsealed document is written by attorney Marc J. Zwillinger and addressed to Judge James Orenstein.
It does not refer to why the Supreme Court is interested in breaking into the additional devices, which are in the states of New York, California, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Illinois.
The newly-released court document seems to corroborate the concerns of Tim Cook, the company’s chief executive, who had warned the move would have “implications far beyond the legal case at hand.”
Apple says it has already cooperated with the federal authorities in investigations into “this horrible crime” in San Bernardino, California, on December 2, 2015, which left 14 dead and 22 injured.
A lawyer representing the victims’ families has told Reuters, however, that they will back the government in the row to find out how they were targeted by Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27.
"They were targeted by terrorists, and they need to know why, how this could happen," said Stephen Larson, a former federal judge serving as the attorney of an unknown number of the victims.
The tech giant argues that the FBI’s demand to roll back data protections to iOS 7 in the iPhone 5c used by Farook, would give authorities the chance to access other iPhones as well although James Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had said he did not “want to break anyone’s encryption or set a master key loose on the land.”
Apart from that, the US government is infamous for privacy violation, no matter of its citizens or even world leaders.
Top-secret documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the existence of mass surveillance programs that involve, among other things, collecting phone records of millions of Americans and foreign nationals as well as political leaders around the world.
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