San Francisco (USA), 27 February (EFE) .- The fight waged by Apple with the US government’s refusal of the company to help the FBI to unlock an iPhone promises to greatly intensify next week when big tech firms in Silicon Valley plan to file legal motions in support of the company.
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Amazon and Yahoo plan to submit several motions to express its support for Apple, in a gesture that is expected to create a united front in Silicon Valley in the open debate on privacy and security with the US government front.
the war drums also sound with force Washington, especially on Tuesday when a hearing in the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives to discuss how to find a necessary balance between security and privacy is provided.
among those expected to testify at the hearing is the principal legal adviser to Apple, Bruce Sewell, as well as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), James Comey, and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance.
Neither side gives signals weakness in the fight involving an iPhone phone used by one of the authors of the shooting last December in the Californian city of San Bernardino, in which 14 people and 22 died wounded, in a case under investigation as terrorism.
the FBI wants the technology company will help you unlock the device.
Specifically, the FBI seeks to Apple design a software that allows you to remove the security system installed on the phone and which it is scheduled to erase all contents of the device after ten attempts failed passwords.
that would allow the federal agency to use the method known as “brute force”, which uses a computer to test a large number of password combinations until you find the right one.
the federal judge Sheri Pym ordered last week to Apple help FBI agents a week, what the technology giant based in the California city of Cupertino ( United States) refuses.
One of the main lawyers for Apple in the case, Theodore Olson warned on Friday that the yield to government pressure would lead to a “police state.”
“One can imagine different law enforcement officials telling Apple that they want a new product to access something,” Olson said Friday told the CNN.
“Even a state judge may ask Apple to design something. There would endpoint. Lead to a police state, “said the lawyer.
” It’s very easy to say that there is a case of terrorism and that, therefore, one has to do everything you say the government, but one not wants to violate the civil liberties that we all celebrate simply because using the word terrorism, “he said Olson.
Apple argued in its formal Pym judge response Thursday that the” unprecedented order “from the government to Apple help you access the data in one of its iPhones “is not supported by the law and violate the Constitution.”
the Cupertino giant believes the issue should be resolved in Congress, a view shared by some its technological rivals like Microsoft, which argues that the law of the eighteenth century in which the legal case of the Government rests against Apple is out of date.
“we do not believe that courts should try to troubleshoot issues XXI century technology with laws that were written in the era of the adding machine, “the principal legal adviser to Microsoft, Brad Smith said Thursday at a hearing in Congress.
Apple, meanwhile, he says it is willing to take the case to the Supreme Court
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