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Apple has asked a US court to reverse the order for the company to help the FBI to review the iPhone Syed Farook , one of the attackers of San Bernardino.
in your request, Apple says authorities are looking for “dangerous powers” and that the measure violates constitutional rights.
the FBI and White House responded that the request is limited to one iPhone.
But Apple says software necessary to comply with the request of the FBI “simply does not exist” .
would have to create a new version of the iPhone operating system, which contains a “back door” to the encrypted data of the device.
the company argues that court does not have the authority to force it to do that .
He also claims that no court has never forced a company to weaken the safety of their products to access individual information.
“This case is the Department of Justice and the FBI searching through the courts to obtain a dangerous power that Congress and the Americans have preserved,” says the document .
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Analysis – Dave Lee, BBC Technology
when appealing to the American public, there are numerous options that one you can resort to gain support, numerous strings pulling on the mind of almost every person living in that country.
In this case, the FBI leaned the fight against terror and the need to defeat the so-called Islamic State .
Few would disagree with this, and even Tim Cook has acknowledged the compelling moral argument to unlock the phone.
But if there is one thing that worries the Americans more than the . terrorism, is the erosion of their constitutional rights
in the motion filed by Apple on Thursday, February 25, the company appealed to the strongest rope of all: freedom of expression .
the code you write, according to the company, is its form of expression is expression.
what calls the FBI would be forcing Apple to write a code with which you disagree, he says the company .
This may be the argument that tilt the balance in the court of public opinion.
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the most difficult issue
on Thursday, FBI Director James Comey, said the dispute between the government and Apple was ” the most difficult “he had faced in government.
Testifying before Congress, Comey said: “This is the most difficult issue I’ve seen in the government and will require negotiation and conversation” .
the dispute between Apple and the FBI exploded last week when it asked for help from the company to unlock the smartphone Syed Rizwan Farook, who with his wife, it killed 14 people in December 2015.
So far, Apple has refused to unlock the phone.
in an interview broadcast yesterday, with the US television network ABC, Apple chief Tim Cook, said the FBI was asking create “the equivalent software to cancer”
He added. “some things are hard and some things are right and other things are both. This is one of two “.
constitutional law
Apple has argued that the request of the FBI violates their constitutional right to freedom expression, because in 1999 a court ordered that the computer code is considered a form of expression.
By forcing Apple to create a new code, the FBI was violating a constitutional right, the company said.
Apple’s lawyer, Bruce Sewell, declared before Congress on March 1, in this case encryption.
the technology leaders and users of Apple have asked the company to resist the FBI .
supporters of the brand gathered outside the company stores in the United States on Tuesday February 23 to show their support.
a court Justice Department US accused Apple in February resist the FBI to push their “marketing strategy”.
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