government and tech companies that disagree about whether or not end-to-end encryption should be allowed. The company eventually did hand over backups from his iCloud account, but the whole ordeal shone a light on the back-and-forth dialogue going on between the U.S. Attorney General William Barr publicly asked Apple to unlock the two iPhones the shooter had in his possession. The problem, according to law enforcement: Fully locked-down iPhones could be a roadblock to investigations, like the probe into a Saudi Air Force officer who shot three people dead at a Pensacola, Florida naval base last month.
But then the FBI stepped in and put the kibosh on those plans. So the company also couldn't fork over the goods to law enforcement anymore.Īpple had intended to make end-to-end encryption of an entire device's data, which would then be uploaded to iCloud, available to customers. End-to-end encryption is meant to stop hackers, but it would also have meant that Apple would no longer have the encryption key to read a person's data.Attorney General William Barr called on Apple to unlock two iPhones used by a Saudi Air Force officer who shot and killed three people on a Florida naval base last month. Apple scrapped plans to let its customers fully encrypt backups of their phone to iCloud after the FBI said it would hamper investigations, according to a Reuters report.
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