First report: Important developments and substantive issues, March-July 2016 2016, para. 20
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- Now that the Apple versus FBI case is no longer sub judice and, hopefully, people on all sides can think a bit more clearly and less passionately, it is respectfully submitted that since hundreds of millions of Apple smartphones have been sold globally this is a global issue and not one which is of interest solely in the United States. Likewise, the same laws which were used to try and compel Apple to help law enforcement agencies obtain access to the data in that case may be used with other manufacturers who have sold many more hundreds of millions of smartphones around the world than Apple has, especially since more and more manufacturers are building cryptographic safeguards into their products. It would appear that economies of scale mean that we are moving towards a situation where first one third and eventually half of the world's population will own and use a smartphone. Thus, as will be seen below, we are faced with a simple fact: the smartphone is a ubiquitous technology which has huge ramifications for privacy.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 20
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