Re: My question is: why Apple gave away the phone backups, but refuses to access the phone?
Instead Apple gave away the backups, but refuses to help to unlock the phone. It looks to me privacy rights are not at the core of this fighting
The privacy rights of the user of this ohine are not relevant - aside from the fact he's dead, he's not even the owner of the phone. But no-one has ever claimed that the case was about his rights - it isn't and never has been.
This case is about the rights of everyone else. Everyone who has a phone - whether an Apple product or not. Whether a US citizen or not. That includes me. It probably includes you.
To suggest that this is just Apple being churlish would seem to indicate a fairly dramatic misunderstanding of the situation...
Vic.
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