Privacy vs. International security
It’s the 21the century, no one can deny that we are almost relying on technology in everything in our daily life, and with the development of hacking methods and the growing importance of data and information of users, privacy has become of utmost importance for both users and companies but does privacy have downsides?
Privacy vs. International security
It’s the 21the century, no one can deny that we are almost relying on technology in everything in our daily life, and with the development of hacking methods and the growing importance of data and information of users, privacy has become of utmost importance for both users and companies but does privacy have downsides?
Cressida Dick The commissioner of police of the metropolis in the UK said: “the current focus on encryption by many tech companies is only serving to make our job to identify and stop terrorist harder if not impossible in some cases”. She also wrote to the Daily Telegraph: “end to end encryption which allows terrorists to message each other in secrecy is giving terrorists advantage over police”.
Leaked information Wikileaks indicated that the former French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve headed to silicon valley weeks after the Paris attacks to enlist a new force in his fight on terror.
And the franc’s top cop planned to meet with senior executives from Apple inc. Google inc. Twitter inc. And Facebook inc.
his message was: US tech companies and social networks must do more to rid their services of extremist postings and should open up encryption to ease government surveillance.
Another case happened in 2019 when attorney general William Barr made a public appeal on Apple to unlock the iPhone of the shooter who attacked at a naval air station in Florida. Barr has outspoken his belief that the tech companies have obfuscated access to encrypted devices when requested by law enforcement and Apple has been steadfast in its position that it not only won’t but can’t.
On the other side, Apple’s transparency report says it has responded to over 125,000 government requests for information and has turned over what information it has when asked by law enforcement.
Appel’s senior director of global privacy said “end to end encryption is critically important to the services we rely on”. She also said “building a backdoor to encryption is not the way we are going to solve this”.
Apple’s spokesperson added “we have always maintained that there is no such thing as a backdoor only for good guys. Backdoors can be exploited by those who threaten our national security and the security of our customers. Today law enforcement has access to more data than ever in history so Americans do not have to choose between weakening encryption and solving investigations. We feel strongly that encryption is vital to protect our country and our users’ data”.
To work this problem out, the white house and tech giants made a host of commitments in August 2021. President Joe Biden and chief executives from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, IBM, and many leaders from other sectors attended the summit.
The companies made several pledges, including investing billions of dollars to make technical services available to government agencies, strengthen cybersecurity in their products, and teaching cybersecurity concepts to millions of students.
Writer/ Teba Ali
Proofreading And Writing/ Sajjad Feyli
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