{"id":956,"date":"2016-06-14T03:59:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T03:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/?p=956"},"modified":"2024-12-23T07:57:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T07:57:01","slug":"apple-echoes-commitment-to-encryption-after-orlando-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/apple-echoes-commitment-to-encryption-after-orlando-shooting-956\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Echoes Commitment to Encryption after Orlando Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Apple used the kickoff of its Worldwide Developers Conference Monday to reaffirm the company\u2019s stance on encryption and data monetization, one day after the most deadly mass shooting in U.S. history threatened to rekindle the debate surrounding the use of the technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn every feature that we do, we carefully consider how to protect your privacy,\u201d Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi told conference attendees in San Francisco Monday.<\/p>\n

Federighi said that includes the Cupertino-based company\u2019s commitment \u201cto use end-to-end encryption by default,\u201d and described a new policy at Apple known as \u201cdifferential privacy,\u201d which incorporates using machines to learn how users use Apple products via crowdsourced data, while not tracking specific data back to individual users.<\/p>\n

Federighi\u2019s keynote came one day after 29-year-old Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando early Sunday, and who authorities later said pledged allegiance to ISIS during the attack.<\/p>\n

The scenario echoes last year\u2019s shooting in San Bernardino, where two attackers later found to have made a similar pledge to the Islamic extremist terror group were found in possession of an iPhone after a shootout with police that left both dead. The FBI asked Apple to bypass the device\u2019s encryption as part of their investigation \u2014 a request Apple refused, prompting a court battle that ended prematurely after the FBI found a third-party to crack the phone\u2019s encryption.<\/p>\n

Investigators recovered a phone from Mateen after he died in Sunday\u2019s attack, but have declined to identify its make. Regardless of whether the device is an Apple product, the shooting could easily become fodder for those in government pushing for a back door into encrypted communication platforms like Apple\u2019s, especially given the increasing number and popularity of encryption applications like Telegram of the Facebook-owned WhatsApp.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going through the killer\u2019s life \u2014 especially his electronics \u2014 to understand as much as we can about his path and whether there was anyone else involved, either in directing him or in assisting him,\u201d FBI Director James Comey said Monday.<\/p>\n

The FBI director said investigators are confident Mateen was self-radicalized online.<\/p>\n

Comey has repeatedly testified before Congress on the emerging issue of terrorists and criminals \u201cgoing dark\u201d online as a result of their use of communication platforms with end-to-end encryption, which in Apple\u2019s case, not even the company itself can access without a user\u2019s PIN.<\/p>\n

The tug of war between privacy and security has spread from cases still pending in court against Apple and others to Congress, where lawmakers have offered several legislative proposals to discuss or even mandate law enforcement cooperation, all the way up to the 2016 presidential election, with Donald Trump calling for a \u201cboycott\u201d of Apple products.<\/p>\n

Apple CEO Tim Cook opened the conference Monday by leading the crowd in a moment of silence for the victims of Sunday\u2019s shooting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Apple community is made up of people from all around the world, all different backgrounds, all different points of view,\u201d said Cook, who came out as gay in 2014. \u201cWe celebrate our diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe offer our deepest sympathies to everyone whose lives were touched by this violence,\u201d he continued, \u201cthis senseless, unconscionable act of terrorism, of hate aimed at dividing and destroying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cook wrote an open letter earlier this year in the wake of the San Bernardino debate pushing back against the FBI\u2019s attempt to force the company into cooperating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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