The purpose of security is to safeguard privacy. Billions of people share their most personal, intimate information using services like ours, and they expect all of us to keep it safe from criminals and other bad guys. Asking a single company to undermine the security of its product for an investigation threatens the security of all of us in the long run.
Today, WhatsApp and other companies are asking a U.S. court to overturn an order that would require Apple to weaken the security of its product. We are proud to stand together to demonstrate how these efforts go beyond what the law allows and how they compromise the values upon which our country is built."
Facebook and WhatsApp support of Apple in their fight for encryption against the FBI adds them to a growing list of technology companies. Google, Amazon, Microsoft and more have come out in support of strong encryption for their users—though skeptics wonder how much of it is true belief and how much is purely PR. At least in the case of Amazon's devices, their dropping of encryption in their latest firmware is definitely not for the PR.
The battle for the right to strong encryption rages on. First we saw Apple have to defend their users’ right to privacy regarding the iPhone involved in the San Bernardino shooting. With one of the shooter’s iPhone 5C units in FBI custody, the government requested that Apple create a tool that weakens iPhone security—to which they said no. Repeatedly. Now the CEO of Facebook-owned app WhatsApp Jan Koum and the social network king himself, Mark Zuckerberg, are backing Apple’s decision.
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