Apple vs. the FBI: Why the stakes have never been higher

The one thing we know about privacy and data security is that we have neither. Those words are more true every day and if a federal judge gets her way, the state of privacy throughout the world is about to get a lot worse.

Apple is currently wrestling with the FBI and Department of Justice, resisting a demand to build a backdoor to its iPhone, which would expose all the information contained on the device. This is one of the most important legal questions to ever be raised in society’s unending struggle to balance public safety and personal liberty.