Google and Apply have just earned themselves a bad name with the FBI! In the race to provide privacy to their customers, both companies touted their new encryption to boost smartphone privacy, prohibiting the FBI, and even Google and Apple from obtaining the contents of those phones.
It would seem to fit in nicely with the recent Supreme Court's ruling that the police need a warrant to search the cell phones of criminal suspects! The fact is that our smartphones today house a lot of private and sensitive information; information like bank and other online accounting information, and other such information. Police need a warrant to search our homes, and cell phones today contain just the same valuable information that can be found in a home!
As much as the FBI is crying fowl over this technology being used on smartphones, the fact is that people still need a certain degree of privacy, especially in this world of cyber threats! The recent episode with the NSA spying on people's records doesn't help the FBI's case much! The FBI will just have to find other means to locate vital information....and I am sure they will.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/09/26/google-apple-earn-fbis-wrath-over-privacy
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/25/justice/supreme-court-cell-phones/
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