Cybersecurity
Google, Tech Companies Side With Apple in Decryption Protest
- Giving access to smartphones would be 'troubling precedent'
- Coalition that includes Microsoft, Facebook also speaks out
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Google and other technology companies are backing Apple Inc. in its fight against the U.S. government, which is trying to get the company to unlock an encrypted iPhone, a move that the industry fears will lead to greater access by any authorities to private data.
Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive officer, tweeted on Wednesday that asking companies to create a way to hack into people’s devices and data would set a “troubling precedent.”