Apple’s Eddy Cue: FBI could make us spy on Americans with iPhone cameras or microphones

Kif Leswing, writing for Business Insider:

In a Spanish-language interview broadcast on Univision on Wednesday, Cue defended Apple’s refusal to cooperate with a court order asking it to help the FBI extract data from an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.

And:

“When they can get us to create a new system to do new things, where will it stop?” Cue said.

“For example, one day [the FBI] may want us to open your phone’s camera, microphone. Those are things we can’t do now. But if they can force us to do that, I think that’s very bad,” Cue said, according to a translation provided by Apple.

And:

“What they want is to give them a key to the back door of your house, and we don’t have the key. Since we don’t have the key, they want us to change the lock,” Cue said.

And:

“For example, when we made Apple Pay, we did not want to have the number of the credit card, because if you keep it, and if someone steals it, they can use it anywhere. When you use Apple Pay, instead of using that number, we use a new number every time you buy something,” Cue said.

Want to hear this for yourself? The interview is in Spanish (Cue’s parents emigrated from Cuba, he grew up speaking it at home) and a bit of the video is embedded below.