Apple’s refusal to back the FBI unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino killers is the same as Catholicism’s insistence on the sanctity of the confessionalIt’s often said that Apple is a cult,but the company’s refusal to decrypt the contents of a terrorist’s iPhone puts some force into the joke. Apple is treating the sanctity of the iPhone exactly the way that the Vatican treats the sanctity of the confessional: as a contract it has entered into with the customer that supersedes all other moral claims. We should not be misled by the technologies involved here. It might seem that the Vatican simply refuses to divulge the secrets of the confessional in situations where a priest very well could whether he wanted to, whereas Apple physically can’t extract the information from a customer’s iPhone. Related: Apple isn't protecting a shooter's iPhone data. They're defending digital privacy | Susan McGregor Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com