Privacy

Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote a Customer Letter to inform Apple customers and U.S. citizens why it was so important that Apple not create an operating system to circumvent its many security features or help give the "key" to its encrypted information; because this technique provides opportunity for a back door into many other systems including those in homes, stores, and banks. Put into the wrong hands, this is a major threat to the security of American people and go against the very fundamentals of the basis of our government.

I believe that Apple was undeniably justified in not helping the U.S. government build a "back door" into its own products to protect its customers but ultimately help protect the American people. Security is important and with so many threats to our worlds physical safety, it is nice to think our devices, home, banks, and stores are for the most part, protected. 

They say millennials do not care about their privacy, however, we do. It just may seem this way because we are accustomed to technology, how it works, and the kind of surveillance it comes with. However, this request from the government goes beyond surveillance. It crosses a security and privacy boundary that is too much of an invasion and a threat to our security and freedoms as American citizens. I believe that even though it may seem that as a generation we are less private, we recognize the crossing of boundaries of surveillance into a threat to our securities and privacies and when it has the potential to undermine our basic freedoms and liberties.