Google CEO stands firm with Apple

CNBC confirmed Friday that the Department of Justice (DoJ) is looking to obligate Apple and obey the Federal Bureau of Investigation orders of cracking a phone used by a San Bernardino, California attackers.

Leading social networks Facebook and Twitter have, via their recent statements, have announced their support for tech giant Apple’s resolute stance on encryption. While acknowledging law enforcement faces challenges to protect the public, Pichai said “forcing companies to enable hacking could compromise users’ privacy”. “We build secure products to keep your information safe and we give law enforcement access to data based on valid legal orders”.

In a letter to customers Wednesday, Cook expressed his opposition to a federal judge court order – calling it “chilling” and “dangerous”.

Edward Snowden, famous whistleblower on the NSA, also commented.

“Specifically, the FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation”.

The controversy, needless to say, added fuel to the extremely polarizing debate on national security vs online privacy.

“Apple’s response to the government is something we completely wholeheartedly agree with”, said the CEO of the cloud storage company. He said in a Tweet that “The FBI is creating a world where citizens rely on #Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around”. In September, he emphasized that this responsibility “has grown markedly in the last couple of decades or so as government has found it more hard to move forward”.