Samuel A. Lewis, a member of Cozen O’Connor’s Intellectual Property Litigation group, discusses the U.S. government’s order requiring Apple to facilitate government hacking. Sam says, “If Apple can be forced to facilitate government hacking, then any business is subject to being co-opted simply because our government has invoked the phrase national security.” The government is unable to easily hack the encryption on an iPhone so U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym ordered Apple to provide assistance in doing so. The order, “requires Apple to create a version of its iOS operating system susceptible to being hacked so that the government can automate its efforts to hack the encryption protecting data on the phone.” Sam says that, “The larger question is whether the government should be able to co-opt a business’ resources, and dictate that a business produce products susceptible to being hacked, simply because the government claims it is acting in the interest of national security.”
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