On December 2, 2015, 14 people died in a terrorist attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino. Since then the FBI has been working on finding more information on Syed Farook, one of the shooters.

Farook was an iPhone owner and the FBI is now trying to unlock her phone to find more information. With that being said, Apple is being requested to help the FBI for access on more information.

Smartphones are now in everyone’s reach and are a very important item of our day to day life. Phones have access to very personal information, conversations, and notes. Everything is then protected with a passcode. Apple has made it very clear that they are “deeply committed to safeguarding their [clients] data.”

“The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose the order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand.”

Apple has used encryption to protect their customers’ personal data. They even claim to have that certain data out of reach because they believe that the contents in our phone are none of their business.”

Tim Cook explains a message to Apple customers that they have “aided” the FBI with everything that is both within the power and within the law to help the FBI.

Although the FBI’s intentions are good, Cook states that the FBI is asking for something they cannot provide and something that is very dangerous to create.

Apple believes that if they create a new iPhone operating system (iOS), according to the FBI’s request, it could very dangerous in someone’s physical possession. “The FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation.”

Creating a new system would be like creating a backdoor so the government can have any access to our personal lives in their hands. The FBI is justifying it with finding more information on a terrorist attack, but what will they justify with when the want to retain more information on other cases.

The All Writs Act of 1789 authorizes the United States federal courts to issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdiction and agreeable to the usages and principle of law. The FBI is proposing this act instead of asking legislative action through Congress.

The actions that the FBI are taking are very scary to ponder about. The government can have access to any information they want without or will and can control what we see and hear.

Many social media CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg have many statements supporting Apple’s decision. Zuckerberg states, “I don’t think building backdoors is the way to go, so we’re pretty sympathetic to Tim (Apple’s chief executive) and Apple.”

This case has raised some serious argument sand thoughts. This has been called “the hardest question I’ve seen in government” by FBI Director James Comey.

This case will determine how much privacy we Americans really have.