Edward Snowden, Google, WhatsApp Join Apple in Fighting FBI

SputnikNews.com
18.02.2016

Former CIA contractor Edward Snowden – who exposed mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency and the UK’s GCHQ – has joined Google and WhatsApp in backing Apple’s challenge to the FBI wanting to unblock an iPhone belonging to a terrorist.

However, within hours, Google had responded to the Apple-FBI case.

The argument arose following the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, on December 2, 2015, in which 14 people were killed and 22 were seriously injured. In its investigation into the attack, the FBI requested data from Apple on one of the iPhones that belonged to one of the attackers. Although Apple complied with many of the requests, the FBI wanted more.

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