UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’Ad Al-Hussein on Friday weighed in on the Apple-FBI dispute, asking U.S. authorities to proceed with great caution. The legal fight centers on a court’s order that Apple help the FBI access encrypted iPhone data to aid its investigation of the San Bernardino terrorist attack. Such a move could lead to crackdowns in various authoritarian countries, Al-Hussein said. “In order to address a security-related issue related to encryption in one case, the authorities risk unlocking a Pandora’s Box.”
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UN Commissioner: Human Rights at Stake in FBI, Apple Struggle
Posted by: David Jones March 5, 2016 07:00 AMUN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’Ad Al-Hussein on Friday weighed in on the Apple-FBI dispute, asking U.S. authorities to proceed with great caution. The legal fight centers on a court’s order that Apple help the FBI access encrypted iPhone data to aid its investigation of the San Bernardino terrorist attack. Such a move could lead to crackdowns in various authoritarian countries, Al-Hussein said. “In order to address a security-related issue related to encryption in one case, the authorities risk unlocking a Pandora’s Box.”