Arizona county attorney picks politics over privacy

Saying that Apple's refusal to help a FBI examination puts the organization "in favor of terrorists," Maricopa County, Arizona's area lawyer's office will no more issue iPhones for authority use. Prosecutor Bill Montgomery issued people in general proclamation today after secretly conveying the new approach to "material staff" on Sunday.

Apple’s refusal to cooperate with a legitimate law enforcement investigation to unlock a phone used by terrorists puts Apple on the side of terrorists instead of on the side of public safety,” Montgomery said in the press release. “Positioning their refusal to cooperate as having anything to do with privacy interests is a corporate PR stunt and ignores the 4th Amendment protections afforded by our Constitution.

The announcement says that the workplace will no more offer Apple-made cell phones as choices for substitutions or updates, so we accept that any messy, terrorist-adoring gadgets that representatives are presently utilizing can sit tight. 
Montgomery is reverberating the feelings of the U.S. Branch of Justice, which asserted a week ago that Apple's imperviousness to making programming that will permit examiners to get to information on San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's iPhone is an exposure stunt.We aren’t sure we get the prosecutor’s reference to the 4th Amendment of the Constitution, however. That bill states:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

So we're not clear on whose securities Montgomery is protecting. He could be contending that the obscure All Writs Act of 1781, which says fundamentally that courts can make demands, concedes the FBI a lawful warrant. Be that as it may, the fourth Amendment doesn't say anything in regards to shielding the legislature from the general population it needs to examine; it's really the a different way. 

In any case, in the event that you need a free, government provided iPhone, you ought to possibly apply some place other than the Maricopa County Attorney's office.

I don’t expect my action to affect Apple’s stock price,” Montgomery said. “But I cannot in good conscience support doing business with an organization that chooses to thwart an active investigation into a terrorist attack that claimed the lives of fourteen fellow citizens. If Apple wants to be the official smartphone of terrorists and criminals, there will be a consequence.