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Apple refuses to assist ED in unlocking Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's iPhone. Here's the reason.
While being interrogated, Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal expressed that if the ED accessed his iPhone data and conversations, they would gain insight into the AAP's election tactics and pre-election partnerships.
Reports suggest that Apple has refused to unlock or grant the Enforcement Directorate (ED) access to the iPhone owned by Delhi's Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal. According to these reports, the tech powerhouse based in Cupertino stated that the data on the device could only be accessed using the password established by the device's owner.
The Indian Express cited insiders who revealed that the ED only discovered Rs 70,000 and four cellphones, including the Chief Minister's, during a night raid corresponding with Kejriwal's detention on March 21. Reportedly, the Delhi Chief Minister had turned off his iPhone and refused to disclose his password.
Why didn't Kejriwal reveal his iPhone's password to the ED?
According to various accounts, Kejriwal stated during his interrogation that if his cell phone data and conversations were accessed, the ED could potentially gain insight into AAP's "election plan" and alliances before the election.
Apple's track record of refusing to unlock devices for law enforcement agencies
This isn't the inaugural instance of Apple denying to unlock a gadget when asked by a nation's investigative authorities.
In 2020, Apple declined to unlock the gadget of Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a Second Lieutenant in the Saudi Air Force, who killed three Americans at the Pensacola Naval Air Station. The US officials labeled this as a terrorist act, prompting the FBI to request Apple to unlock the gadget and disclose the data for investigative assistance.
Apple declined to unlock the device but gave the investigators a broad range of information linked to Alshamrani. In response to additional requests, Apple shared further data, including information they could extract from iCloud backups, account details, and transactional data from various accounts.
Likewise, in 2016, a US federal judge requested Apple's help in breaking the iPhone security of two individuals suspected to be terrorists, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, who were involved in the 2015 San Bernardino assault.
The judge requested Apple to offer "feasible technical support" to the officials and devise a method that would bypass Apple's security feature, which locks the phone and makes the data on the device unreachable after 10 failed password attempts. However, Apple also refused to assist the FBI in this circumstance.
What is the reason behind Apple's denial to unlock devices for police agencies?
Apple's chief executive officer, Tim Cook, has consistently upheld the company's stance of not entertaining such demands. He cites Apple's promise to protect their user's privacy and, more crucially, to uphold civil freedom.
"Regarding the Farook case, it's not just about one phone or a singular inquiry. Thus, upon receiving the directive from the authorities, we felt it was necessary to voice our stance," Cook communicated to his staff via email. Cook, along with the rest of the Apple leadership team, have frequently made extra efforts to clarify that supporting encryption does not equate to facilitating criminal activity or endorsing terrorism.
Cook continued by asserting that, despite Apple having "zero tolerance or compassion for terrorists," adhering to the Department of Justice's directives could establish a perilous precedent.
The security of data belonging to hundreds of millions of honest individuals is in jeopardy, and a perilous precedent that endangers everyone's civil rights is being established, as stated by Cook in his email.
Apple maintains the stance that if they were to provide a means of bypassing their devices' encryption for authorized entities such as law enforcement agencies, this bypass method could consequently fall into the hands of malicious entities, such as cybercriminals and hackers.
The Senior Director of Global Privacy at Apple, Jane Horvath, has publicly stated that "end-to-end encryption is crucial to the services we depend on." Additionally, Horvath expressed that creating a loophole in encryption is not the solution to addressing matters like terrorist investigations.
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