The FBI wants Apple to write software code to help it break into the iPhone. Apple doesn't want to say this. Andrew Crocker, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, a digital civil rights group, says the government… — Laura Sydell Copy Share Image
[Eric]Goldman [a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law] says back in the 1990s, courts began to confront the question of whether software code is a form of speech. Goldman says the answer to that question came in a case called Bernstein v. U.S. Department of Justice. Student Daniel Bernstein who created an encryption software called Snuffle. He wanted… — Laura Sydell Copy Share
In many ways, Apple CEO Tim Cook has been saying that and more for many years. He's said you don't have to choose between… — Laura Sydell Copy Share Image
Looking back at Tim Cook's public appearances in the last few years makes the standoff with the government look almost inevitable. — Laura Sydell Copy Share Image
The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's pretty well-established… — Laura Sydell Copy Share Image
Under [Tim] Cook's leadership, Apple is now using 100 percent renewable energy in the U.S. and China, and it's worked to improve conditions at… — Laura Sydell Copy Share Image
Under [Tim] Cook, Apple has a new product line with the Apple Watch, but it hasn't generated the kind of excitement that the iPod,… — Laura Sydell Copy Share Image
Apple doesn't have to write code, which equals speech, when it doesn't agree with what the government wants to do. And it's not that… — Laura Sydell Copy Share Image
Even under Apple founder Steve Jobs, the company did emphasize values. Remember the Think Different ad campaign that used pictures of the Dalai Lama,… — Laura Sydell Copy Share Image
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, and software has been treated as a form of speech ever since. So if software code is… — Laura Sydell Copy Share Image
The FBI wants Apple to write software code to help it break into the iPhone. Apple doesn't want to say this. Andrew Crocker, an… — Laura Sydell Copy Share Image
The Washington Post speaking out against state legislation that he believed would let businesses deny services to gay, lesbian and transgender people. [Tim] Cook… — Laura Sydell Copy Share Image
Tim Cook has not been afraid to confront the government on issues he considers morally important. — Laura Sydell Copy Share Image
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