It has been a wild 24 hours when it comes to smartphone encryption and user privacy versus national security. Last night, a U.S. judge ruled that Apple must help the FBI obtain data from a passcode-locked iPhone 5c used by one of the gunmen in the fatal San Bernardino shooting. Just hours later, Apple CEO Tim Cook responded by posting an open letter on Apple's homepage saying that Apple would not comply with the court's request. Now, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has chimed in on the matter, saying that he agrees with Cook.
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