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The ‘Fight for the Future’ group is organizing a nationwide protest in support of the tech giant Apple’s refusal to unlock the iPhone of the San Bernardino gunman, under the running standoff between the FBI and Apple. Previously, the group has organized the demonstrations on tech issues.
According to the organizers, the protest will be happened in several places, included, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Apple's Silicon Valley headquarters and FBI headquarters in Washington. The supporters will carry the banners saying, “FBI: Don’t Break Our Phones” and “Secure Phones Save Lives,” the group said.
A recent poll revealed that, 51% of respondents are in favor of the FBI's effort to force Apple to help in the terror probe. Tim Cook, Apple Chief Executive, said in a letter to his employees, that, “the case is about much more than a single phone or a single investigation. At stake is the data security of hundreds of millions of law-abiding people, and setting a dangerous precedent that threatens everyone’s civil liberties.”
FBI Director, James Comey, said that, "I hope folks will take a deep breath and stop saying the world is ending, but instead use that breath to talk to each other.”
“We simply want the chance, with a search warrant, to try to guess the terrorist's passcode without the phone essentially self-destructing and without it taking a decade to guess correctly. That is it. We do not want to break anyone's encryption or set a master key loose on the land,” Comey said.
Apple attorney, Ted Olson, said in concern of the privacy of millions of Apple customers, that, “there is no limit to what the government could require Apple to do, if it succeeds this way, but Apple has to draw the line at re-creating code, changing its iPhone, putting its engineers and creative talents to destroy the iPhone as it exists.”
After the shooting in San Bernardino, Apple provided the FBI with data from Farook's work iPhone, which he had backed up remotely, but he did not save to iCloud from October 19 to the date of the attack. Comey said that, “maybe the phone holds the clue to finding more terrorists. Maybe it does not, but we cannot look the survivors in the eye, or ourselves in the mirror, if we don not follow this lead.”
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