According to an article by Refinery29 posted on Sunday, Apple has spoken about their protection of their customers privacy before, but only recently has it been proven through documents that the company really does practice what it preaches.
Last Saturday, The Daily Dot said that apart from supporting its customers' right to encrypted communications, it also stands up to the government even for the meth dealers' iPhones. All the information came from a court transcript from a hearing in Brooklyn in October of last year, where the judge asked the company to expound on why they ignored search warrants from the U.S. prosecutors to unlock the phone of Jun Feng. Alongside six others, Feng pled guilty in attempting to distribute methamphetamines. Feng's iPhone 5S was configured to erase all of its data if someone fails to enter the correct passcode after 10 times in a row of trying.
Apple's lawyers wrote in their file of response that the government's request is impossible to perform, and that in most cases, may it be today or in the future, the request order is burdensome. Even their latest operating systems are designed to be impassable by the company itself.
In the past, Apple has already been bombarded with requests for iPhone unlock since 2008. But, the protection of their supporters' privacy is their main concern. The comoany's lawyer Marc Zwillinger said at the hearing that they are aware that customer data is under siege from a variety of different directions and they have prioritized the importance of the security of their customer data.
"A hypothetical consumer could think if Apple is not in the business of accessing my data and if Apple has built a system to prevent itself from accessing my data, why is it continuing to comply with orders that don't have a clear lawful basis in doing so?" Zwillinger added.
