Obama warns of the dangers in ‘fetishizing our phones above every other value’ and putting them ‘off limits’ in war on terror
President Barack Obama spoke to a crowd at the keynote speech at South by Southwest about the collaboration of the government with technology
He said he could not comment specifically about the government’s case against Apple to unlock the San Bernardino shooter’s phone
But he asked why data was considered out of bounds when police could enter the privacy of our own homes with a warrant
The president conceded that the government shouldn’t access people’s smartphones ‘willy-nilly’
He said encryption should be made ‘as strong as possible’ but available to the ‘smallest number of people’ possible
By Anneta Konstantinides and Kalhan Rosenblatt
Dailymail.com
12 March 2016
As the government continues to battle with Apple over unlocking the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, President Obama has warned that we are ‘fetishizing’ our devices above everything else.
The president, who was speaking at the SXSW festival on Friday, said he could not comment specifically on the case – but made it clear he didn’t see why phones should be off limits.
‘If, technologically, it is possible to make an impenetrable device where there is no key, no door at all, how do we apprehend the child pornographer, how do we disrupt a terrorist plot?’
‘It’s festishizing our phones above every other value,’ he said. ‘And that can’t be the right answer.’
‘If [the government] can’t get in, then everyone is walking around with a Swiss bank account in their pocket.’
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