Joel Reidenberg appeared on a PBS NewsHour report about law enforcement agencies wanting to unlock iPhones in order to help solve crimes.
Even without the ability to access encrypted iPhones, Reidenberg says law enforcement is living in a “golden age for surveillance”.
JOEL REIDENBERG: I can’t drive down the street anonymously now. My picture’s taken at every street corner. My license plate is captured. And the government can tail me wherever I go. They could do it before, but they had to spend a lot of money to have a cop car following every citizen. Now it’s ubiquitous, and it can be done on a mass scale.
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JOEL REIDENBERG: So they’re hoping there’s evidence there. But they don’t actually know that the evidence is on the phone. They’re looking. They’re fishing. They’re fishing to try to find something. There’s certainly a legitimate reason for the prosecutor to wanna get access to that. The problem, though, is that what’s decided in her case isn’t limited to her case. It can affect people around the country in other kinds of cases where the circumstances will be far less compelling.