Apple praised by Google, damned by Lee Rigby family for FBI refusal (techweekeurope.co.uk).
“This week Apple was ordered by a US court to provide ‘reasonable technical assistance’ to authorities to allow the FBI to access [the terrorist who murdered 14 people in San Bernardino, California, Syed] Farook’s iPhone. But Apple refused the ‘chilling’ court order in a open letter to its customers written by CEO Tim Cook. He warned that the court order sets a ‘dangerous precedent’. That refusal to co-operate drew condemnation from the family of Fusilier Lee Rigby, the soldier who was brutally murdered by extremists in 2013 outside his London barracks.”
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