The American Civil Liberties Union announced on Tuesday that it plans to sue the FBI for information related to the shadow and that encrypted devices have a relatively new ability to break the will.
The lawsuit will seek to target information related to the FBI’s Electronic Device Analysis Unit (EDAU) and explicit acquisition of its software, which will allow the government to unlock and decrypt information that would otherwise be secure on cell phones Are stored as follows.
For years now, the US government has waged a pressure campaign against companies like Apple, forcing them to create highly unstable encryption backdoor that would allow law enforcement to use personal devices such as cell phones and personal computers. If they are being recorded as evidence. This is the kind of thing that advocates privacy and advocates for human rights: In 2016, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zaid Raad al-Hussein specifically stated that electronics manufacturers would be forced to build backside There would be “implications for human rights” with “implication” and a “risk of opening a Pandora’s box” of government excesses.
But even in the face of all the blow, many experts have warned over the years that the FBI has gone ahead and quietly developed the capability on its own. Indeed, in a blog post announcing the lawsuit, the ACLU cited public court records that described “EDAU appears capable of accessing encrypted information from a closed iPhone … [more] here Even sought to take over the key responsibilities of an electronics engineer. This would include ‘performance [ing] forensic extracts and advanced data recovery on closed and damaged devices’. ‘
In response to the FBI’s own concerns about possible redundancy, the ACLU has submitted a number of information related to EDAU to the Department of Justice and the FBI for its Department of Information Act requests and its technical capabilities to obtain information from locked electronic devices. Freedom filed. In response, the FBI released what has been referred to as a “glomer” response – even refusing to confirm or refute that any such records of EDAU exist in the first place Were.
However, the problem is that the FBI’s refusal to accept whether the records exist is not particularly in light of the fact that the agency’s efforts to access encrypted devices are already known to the public. Formally available. The ACLU has now appealed to a federal court in an effort to force the DODA and FBI to turn over all related documents on the EDAU and its technical capabilities. In a blog post, the ACLU wrote that the FBI’s chilling refusal to provide information did not close the door on the investigation – “They have closed the door, closed the windows, pulled out the colors, and accepted Has denied whether the house we are looking at also exists. ”
“By invoking the Glomar response, the federal government is sending a clear message: It aims to keep the American public in the dark about the ability to access information stored on our personal mobile devices,” the ACLU wrote. “It is imperative that the public gain meaningful access to these records regarding the federal government’s ability to access our phones and computers.” Our privacy and security is at stake. “
