LOS ANGELES: Apple Inc’s top privacy executive defended the company’s use of encryption after recent clashes with law enforcement and politicians over access to information locked on iPhones.
The FBI recently asked Apple to help it access information on iPhones belonging to an alleged gunman who killed three people at a Florida naval base last month. Apple regularly responds to warrants by giving investigators access to data that is stored on its servers, such as users’ iCloud account information.
Tech companies and governments have clashed for years over balancing law enforcement access and user privacy, most famously when the US sought access to an iPhone from a terrorist who carried out a deadly shooting spree in San Bernardino, California, in 2015.Discussions and debate have continued with little progress.
She was joined on the panel by Erin Egan, Facebook’s chief privacy officer, Susan Shook, Procter & Gamble Co’s global privacy officer, and Rebecca Slaughter, a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission.
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