Debate has been heated in the US recently over whether or not Government investigators should have the ability to seize information relating to individuals with the assistance of organisations, specifically technical organisations and more specifically, technical organisations that have a keen interest in fruit.

I’m honestly surprised that there was any debate surrounding this issue in the US, the rights of the individual have always seemed to me, from an outsider perspective, to be one of upmost importance. That said, there remains a somewhat grey social contract where at some point the rights of society trump the individual.

What I find most interesting in all of these debates, which crop up now and again, is that they relate to data that citizens have created and shared privately and yet almost seem to ignore these key stakeholders in the debate over who should have access to this data.

The Verge is one US based publication that I have been following on the FBI v Apple Case in relation to the San Bernardino attacks, who not only take on the approach of telling a story over quick ‘designed-for-the-commuter’ articles but also place a heavy importance in how content is presented.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/1/11142838/apple-bruce-sewell-iphone-encryption-china-privacy