This petition is being started to keep Apple Inc.'s fervor and honesty about them as it relates to the FBI's request to program a new backdoor into the Apple iPhone for the purposes of accessing locked iPhones taken in as evidence in criminal cases.
This request or demand, presented officially from a U.S. Magistrate to Apple, Inc. on February 16, 2016 is a violation of the privacy terms presented to Apple customers each year (or as often as the privacy terms are updated). The All Writs Act of 1789 is being referenced in this case as the basis for the Federal Government's "right to access" the data on mobile phones captured in these investigations.
The FBI wants to pass security in order to gain access to just one phone, in one criminal case. However, it would mean making an exception for this rare case that would lead to a backdoor policy that endangers the privacy of every citizen that owns an iPhone.
Please keep the current security protocols/measures in place and do not bend to the FBI or U.S. Government in this matter.
When this petition reaches 10,000 signatures, this petition will be brought to the attention of FBI director James B. Comey and chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, R-N.C.
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March 21, 2016
February 24, 2016
The petition has reached 100 signatures. I am now drafting the formal letter that will be sent to the FBI director and the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman once our threshold is met.
Reached 100 supporters
February 22, 2016
433 Comments
I do not believe the government should be empowered to compel any entity to expend resources to develop a backdoor to circumvent a security program they developed. I have no problem with the government (with a valid search warrant) seeking outside specialists to circumvent a security software.
If there is a way to get into the individual phone of a known criminal or terrorist, ok; but NO if it affects the information on many others phones at the same time. Privacy is very important to most people.
Ben Franklin once said that those who give up privacy for security deserve neither. This is about the Government being able to freely grab anything it can justify from your private life to use against you.
I'm an Apple user currently in senior year of law school. Even while not having anything to hide, I have serious concerns about my privacy rights and wish that Apple stands by them as if they were they're own
Don't give in to pressure as you will compromise every single Apple users security and I will be pretty peed of if someone can invade my privacy especially the FBI. This is why I have used apple since 1991.
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Apple must not comply with FBI for iPhone backdoor request
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This petition is being started to keep Apple Inc.'s fervor and honesty about them as it relates to the FBI's request to program a new backdoor into the Apple iPhone for the purposes of accessing locked iPhones taken in as evidence in criminal cases.
This request or demand, presented officially from a U.S. Magistrate to Apple, Inc. on February 16, 2016 is a violation of the privacy terms presented to Apple customers each year (or as often as the privacy terms are updated). The All Writs Act of 1789 is being referenced in this case as the basis for the Federal Government's "right to access" the data on mobile phones captured in these investigations.
The FBI wants to pass security in order to gain access to just one phone, in one criminal case. However, it would mean making an exception for this rare case that would lead to a backdoor policy that endangers the privacy of every citizen that owns an iPhone.
Please keep the current security protocols/measures in place and do not bend to the FBI or U.S. Government in this matter.
When this petition reaches 10,000 signatures, this petition will be brought to the attention of FBI director James B. Comey and chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, R-N.C.
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
March 21, 2016
February 24, 2016
The petition has reached 100 signatures. I am now drafting the formal letter that will be sent to the FBI director and the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman once our threshold is met.
Reached 100 supporters
February 22, 2016
433 Comments
The FBI is there to protect the security of the tax payer/public, not the other way round; therefore the security of the public/tax payer and his/her privacy is paramount. we are talking about a western democracy not what happens in a dictatorship or oligarchy.
I do not believe the government should be empowered to compel any entity to expend resources to develop a backdoor to circumvent a security program they developed. I have no problem with the government (with a valid search warrant) seeking outside specialists to circumvent a security software.
If there is a way to get into the individual phone of a known criminal or terrorist, ok; but NO if it affects the information on many others phones at the same time. Privacy is very important to most people.
Ben Franklin once said that those who give up privacy for security deserve neither. This is about the Government being able to freely grab anything it can justify from your private life to use against you.
I'm an Apple user currently in senior year of law school. Even while not having anything to hide, I have serious concerns about my privacy rights and wish that Apple stands by them as if they were they're own
Don't give in to pressure as you will compromise every single Apple users security and I will be pretty peed of if someone can invade my privacy especially the FBI. This is why I have used apple since 1991.
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The FBI is there to protect the security of the tax payer/public, not the other way round; therefore the security of the public/tax payer and his/her privacy is paramount. we are talking about a western democracy not what happens in a dictatorship or oligarchy.