Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Corporate-Government tech alliance

Apple is slated to unveil later this year a new portal that law enforcement agencies can use to submit and track requests for user data related to investigations.

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In recent years, federal investigators and law enforcement agencies have begun to ramp up their information requests.

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The company can provide some data to law enforcement that users store on its iCloud service, however, it doesn't have as easy access to its encrypted phones. Apple has, in the past, pushed back against law enforcement authorities who have tried to get it to provide a way into its phones.

The company has staked a firm position that introducing backdoors for law enforcement would create vulnerabilities that could be exploited by nefarious actors.

  The Hill
And they'll do it anyway now apparently. Perhaps because there isn't a Snowden-type scandal and that one has pretty much died out.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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