Madras HC: Police Superintendent not Liable For IO’s Delay In Filing Chargesheet or Closure Report  ||  Supreme Court: Provident Fund Dues Have Priority over a Bank’s Claim under the SARFAESI Act  ||  SC Holds Landowners Who Accept Compensation Settlements Cannot Later Seek Statutory Benefits  ||  Supreme Court: Endless Investigations and Long Delays in Chargesheets Can Justify Quashing  ||  Delhi HC: Arbitrator Controls Evidence and Appellate Courts Cannot Reassess Facts  ||  Delhi HC: ED Can Search Anyone Holding Crime Proceeds, not Just Those Named in Complaint  ||  Delhi HC: ED Can Search Anyone Holding Crime Proceeds, not Just Those Named in Complaint  ||  Delhi HC: Economic Offender Cannot Seek Travel Abroad For Medical Treatment When Available In India  ||  SC: Governors and President Have No Fixed Timeline To Assent To Bills; “Deemed Assent” is Invalid  ||  SC: Assigning a Decree For Specific Performance of a Sale Agreement Does Not Require Registration    

Apple: Welfare authority in a corporate veil? - (22 Feb 2016)

Company

Apple’s recent refusal to unlock an iDevice of persons suspected to have terrorist links by the United States government set off as much a furore as it did debate. Apple rejected, and very publicly so, a federal district court order to decrypt the iPhone of a couple who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California and are suspected by the FBI to have links to ISIS. Apple equated decrypting one device as enabling access to all other iPhones, which would domino into services provided by other tech giants. Why all of a sudden companies are being so protective of data held by them may be explained by the international exposure they face. No longer reliant on the American market, companies like Apple rely heavily on demand (and supply) from countries like China where hand-in-hand cooperation with the US government would likely spook users and incite governmental backlash.

Tags : APPLE   DECRYPT   IPHONE   TERROR LINKS  

Share :        

Disclaimer | Copyright 2025 - All Rights Reserved