Worldwide Protests Supporting Apple in Encryption Fight With FBI Planned By Internet Rights Group

Protesters are preparing to assemble in more than 30 cities to lash out at the FBI for obtaining a court order that requires Apple to make it easier to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by a gunman in December's mass shootings in Southern California.

The protests organized by the Internet rights group Fight for the Future are scheduled to occur Tuesday outside Apple stores in the US, the U.K., Hong Kong and Germany.

The US protests will be in cities scattered across more than 20 states, including in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, where protesters plan to express their discontent outside the FBI's headquarters.

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Sounds like a technological attempt at renewing the Occupy movement, only from the standpoint of encryption and backdoors which are already in place everywhere else?

It doesn't make much sense to have any of this, when the NSA and other groups exist that the public hasn't even heard of or seen that can already obtain the information for this and give it to the FBI on request.

It invalidates the whole premise of this, and suggests the possibility of an ulterior agenda between it.

 

I wish them luck with their attempt and hopefully we will have a bit more protection from government agencies!