Apple versus the government

A Couple of years ago, one of the people connected to the San Bernardino shootings had a password on his phone as well as encryption. The phone very likely contained top secret details regarding the plot of the shootings. The FBI pleaded for apple to essentially create a backdoor into the iPhone to unlock it and retrieve the data. Apple simply refused. Apple refused because they felt that it would jeopardize the national security of the people and violate their first Amendment rights. They felt that by showing the FBI that there's a way to get into the iPhone, and by the way this is technology that apple claims has not even been developed yet, then it will keep the people of this country unsafe. The FBI, however, argued that unlocking one phone will not hurt everybody in the United States but apple claims that the minute a back-channel is created that people will be under surveillance like never before. FBI then took it to court.

Apple continued to argue that win or lose the court case that they would not give up the backdoor to accessing the phone. When people buy an iPhone, Apple promises to keep all information on there secret. It also became an extremely important political argument because it would violate the first amendment if apple were to give up the information on unlocking the iPhone. Furthermore, apple deemed it unlawful and the people of this nation began to converge around them as well arguing that they don't want their personal information looked at. Apple also argued that the FBI should be able to figure out the details that they need to know on their own since they are in fact, the FBI. It was the decided in a twist of events, on Tuesday March 1, 2016 that the courts deemed Apple the win and now Apple will no longer have to fight the FBI on even attempting to create a backdoor to the iPhone
and thus jeopardizing the first amendment and national security of the people.

https://theintercept.com/2016/02/29/apple-wins-major-court-victory-in-its-battle-against-fbi-in-a-case-similar-to-san-bernardino/