Apple and Google were accused of terrorism

The United States authorities rather suddenly found allies in the face of the enormous global IT companies Apple and Google.

How convinces the district attorney of Manhattan, Cyrus Vance, new methods of encrypting data, restricting access authorities to users ' personal data, helps the terrorists to carry out new crimes.

Of the Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance has criticized new methods of defence confidential information offered to the users of Apple and Google. In an interview with the American press Vance announced that the encryption in the iPhone, which, according to Apple engineers, it is impossible to hack, restricts law enforcement access to personal data. In his view, this means that the authorities will not be able to monitor the negotiations between potential criminals and terrorists.

"Apple has created the telephone, to data which the police will not be able to access, even if the Tribunal will make such a decision," said Vance, adding that the terrorists, apparently, already ran to the Mall to buy the latest iPhone. According to his statement, if the perpetrators will know that impunity can store your own correspondence and image the reach of law enforcement, it is exactly the gadget terrorists and will buy, informs Russia Today.

With all this, the district attorney of Manhattan, not the 1st who objected to encrypt the data. Earlier, FBI Director James Comey also criticized the new policy of Apple and Google. Also in the company from Cupertino answer to this is that by using encryption, they seek only to satisfy the needs of their users and to defend the freedoms we all value so much".

Remember, an earlier edition of USA Today has published an article in which it was alleged that more than 20 years since 1992, the Office for combating drug trafficking and the Ministry of justice of the United States recorded the telephone calls of Americans. Consequently, the United States government began to record phone calls of their own people for almost 10 years before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

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