While an earlier public poll showed the majority of the public siding with the FBI in the dispute over whether Apple should be forced to help the government demolish into an iPhone,the public mood appears to be shifting. A WSJ/NBC poll shows that, overall, and American voters are now almost evenly split on the issue.
Neither the WSJ nor NBC has yet released the full poll – only the results relating to the Republican primary race – but CNET has reported the numbers.
Overall,American voters are evenly divided over whether Apple should cooperate with FBI efforts to crack open a terrorist’s iPhone.
47 percent said they feared the government wouldnt proceed far enough in protecting national security, while 44 percent feared it would intrude too far into citizens’ privacy.
As you’d expect, and there was a meaningful difference in views among registered Republicans and Democrats more…
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Source: 9to5mac.com