{"id":18608,"date":"2016-03-08T11:46:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18608"},"modified":"2016-03-08T11:46:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:46:05","slug":"the-fbi-vs-apple-debate-just-got-less-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18608","title":{"rendered":"The FBI vs. Apple Debate Just Got Less White"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The FBI vs. Apple Debate Just Got Less White<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The court fight between Apple and the FBI prompted a\u00a0slew<\/a>\u00a0of letters and legal briefs last week from outside parties, including many tech companies and privacy groups. But a particularly\u00a0powerful letter<\/a>\u00a0came from a collection of racial justice activists, including Black Lives Matter.<\/div>\n
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The letter focused on potential civil rights abuses, should the FBI gain the power to conscript a technology company into undermining its own users\u2019 security.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne need only look to the days of J. Edgar Hoover and wiretapping of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. to recognize the FBI has not always respected the right to privacy for groups it did not agree with,\u201d\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0the signatories, including arts and music nonprofit Beats, Rhymes & Relief, the Center for Media Justice, The Gathering for Justice, Justice League NYC, activist and writer Shaun King, and Black Lives Matter co-founder and Black Alliance for Just Immigration executive director Opal Tometi.<\/p>\n

Those tactics haven\u2019t ended, they argue. \u201cMany of us, as civil rights advocates, have become targets of government surveillance for no reason beyond our advocacy or provision of social services for the underrepresented.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Washington and Silicon Valley, the debate over unbreakable encryption has an aura of elite, educated, mostly male whiteness \u2014 from the government representatives who condemn it to the experts who explain why it\u2019s necessary.<\/p>\n

But the main targets of law enforcement surveillance have historically been African American and Muslim communities.<\/p>\n

Malkia Cyril, the co-founder of Center for Media Justice, one of the letter\u2019s signatories, gave a speech\u00a0at one of several nationwide protests outside Apple stores two weeks ago, supporting the tech giant and pointing out the FBI\u2019s history of surveilling black activists. \u201cIn the context of white supremacy and police violence, Black people need encryption,\u201d she\u00a0wrote in a tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The FBI vs. Apple Debate Just Got Less White The court fight between Apple and the FBI prompted a\u00a0slew\u00a0of letters and legal briefs last week from outside parties, including many tech companies and privacy groups. But a particularly\u00a0powerful letter\u00a0came from a collection of racial justice activists, including Black Lives Matter. The letter focused on potential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29,301,11950,3456,9252,765,5567,865,12819],"class_list":["post-18608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-apple","tag-fbi","tag-jenna-mclaughlin","tag-martin-luther-king-jr","tag-silicon-valley","tag-surveillance","tag-the-intercept","tag-washington","tag-wiretapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18609,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18608\/revisions\/18609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}