CNN Student News - 2/23/16
A deadline approaches in a case between the U.S. government and Apple, a French law targets food waste, and a Character Study features a young cancer survivor.
Hope your Tuesday is going well and we are glad you are spending 10 minutes of it with CNN STUDENT NEWS.I am Carl Azuz.
There is a legal case playing out between the U.S. government and a technology company.
And it has lit up a nationwide debate about national security versus information privacy.
Syed Farouk was one of the two terrorists who carried out an attack in California that killed 14 people in December.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation recovered his iPhone and the U.S. court has ordered the Apple company to help agents hack it to get more information about the terrorist and his plans.
But Apple has refused, saying civil liberties are at stake and that helping the government would make its products more vulnerable to cybercrime.
The company has until Friday to formally respond to the ruling in court.
CNN's Laurie Siegel is exploring both sides of this controversy.
So a California court ruled that Apple needs to help the FBI break into the phone of one of the San Bernardino shooters.
Now, as Tim Cook puts it, essentially hack our own user's iPhone.
