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Sidestepping Apple dispute, Obama makes case for access to Device Data
By Jeff Mason AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday made a passionate case for mobile devices to be built in such a way as to allow government to gain access to personal data if needed to prevent a terrorist attack or enforce tax laws. Speaking at the South by Southwest festival
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"What mechanisms do we have available to even do simple things like tax enforcement because if in fact you can't crack that at all, government can't get in, then everybody is walking around with a Swiss bank account in their pocket."
WTF is that supposed to mean?
Basically it means that Apple and Google need to make a product that allows the US Government into it.
At one time the law in Switzerland was so strict on banks sharing information with anybody other than the account holder(Even the name on the account couldn't be discussed.) that you could hide assets there and the courts couldn't find out what you had. The US sued Swiss banks and fined them billions of US Dollars for hiding assets for American citizens because of those laws. Since then the US has gotten Switzerland to pass a law allowing Swiss banks to cooperate with the IRS and institute a sharing agreement for US Citizen's bank accounts in the countries banks.
That would mean they want Apple to have a sharing agreement with the DoJ to allow them and probably other law groups to request all information on the phone despite the encryption. That's what I think it is supposed to mean.
Big fan of Obama. He's terribly wrong on this one.