In Internal Email, Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Refusal To Unlock iPhone Is An Issue Of Civil Liberties
- 8 years ago
Early this morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent an email out to employees about the FBI’s request to unlock an iPhone with the subject line ‘Thank you for your support’.
The email outlines some responses to Cook’s open letter last week and paints the issue of Apple’s refusal to cooperate as one of civil liberties.
In the email, Cook calls for the FBI order to be dropped, and outlines some arguments.
“This case is about much more than a single phone or a single investigation, so when we received the government’s order we knew we had to speak out.
At stake is the data security of hundreds of millions of law-abiding people, and setting a dangerous precedent that threatens everyone’s civil liberties,“ says Cook in the email.
Cook says that some advocates of the government’s order, which we have covered in detail here, want it to “roll back” data protections to the point at which they were as of iOS 7.
The email outlines some responses to Cook’s open letter last week and paints the issue of Apple’s refusal to cooperate as one of civil liberties.
In the email, Cook calls for the FBI order to be dropped, and outlines some arguments.
“This case is about much more than a single phone or a single investigation, so when we received the government’s order we knew we had to speak out.
At stake is the data security of hundreds of millions of law-abiding people, and setting a dangerous precedent that threatens everyone’s civil liberties,“ says Cook in the email.
Cook says that some advocates of the government’s order, which we have covered in detail here, want it to “roll back” data protections to the point at which they were as of iOS 7.