#SaveSecurity: Online Campaign Rallies Against FBI’s Order to Create iPhone Backdoor

As Apple and the FBI continue their landmark encryption battle, a digital rights group launched on Wednesday a new campaign to protest what it calls the bureau’s “misguided and dangerous” push threatening everyone’s safety.

Fight for the Future’s online campaign argues—just as Apple CEO Tim Cook, the UN human rights chief, and other security advocates have—that the case in which the FBI is seeking Apple’s assistance to break into an iPhone recovered from one of the suspected San Bernardino shooters is not just about the one phone.

Rather, “it’s about the future of safety and security for millions of people all over the world,” said Evan Greer, campaign director of Fight for the Future, in a media statement. And according to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, it’s “the most important tech case in a decade.”

The new #SaveSecurity campaign is gathering online signatures and comments to demonstrate opposition to the FBI’s demand. The group says that those messages will be displayed on March 22 outside a federal court in Riverside, Calif., where the two sides will meet next for a “crucial hearing” on the case.

“We’ll be outside the courthouse to make sure those people’s voices are heard, because what the government is trying to do in this case doesn’t just threaten our basic rights, it puts all of us in danger,” Greer’s statement continues. “Encryption protects our hospitals, airports, and water treatment facilities. Undermining security risks lives.”

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