Apple could face heat from police on refusing data access, expert says

Apple’s tight privacy strategy on devices running its iOS 8 operating system will make life more difficult for law enforcement, warns one retired police official.

 

“It absolutely puts another hurdle in the path of law enforcement,” Raymond Foster, a retired LAPD lieutenant, told FoxNews.com, adding that the tech giant may face pushback from law enforcement agencies. “Apple could ultimately, if someone decides that it’s enough of a problem, face legislation saying ‘you can’t do that.’”

 

In a privacy statement on its website, Apple explains that customer data such as photos, messages, email, contacts and call history is protected by each individual’s passcode on iPhones and iPads running iOS 8. “Unlike our competitors, Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data,” it says. “So it’s not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants for the extraction of this data from devices in their possession running iOS 8.”

 

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