Bill Gates backs US government in data fight with Apple

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Bill Gates has sided against Apple &&num;8211&semi; and many other technology companies &&num;8211&semi; in saying the firm should help the US government hack into a locked iPhone as part of the investigation into the San Bernardino shootings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Apple has resisted providing a piece of programming that would help the FBI access the phone&comma; arguing that governments&comma; both in the US and overseas&comma; are likely to use the programme in other cases&comma; undermining data privacy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In an interview with the Financial Times&comma; Microsoft founder Mr Gates said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;This is a specific case where the government is asking for access to information&period;&&num;8221&semi; He likened it to the police getting records from a phone company&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Apple chief Tim Cook has resisted a federal magistrate&&num;8217&semi;s order to hack its own users&comma; and the heads of many other tech companies like Facebook&comma; Twitter and Google have sided with him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;86291" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-86291" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignright"><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;image-63&period;jpeg" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-86291"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;image-63-300x163&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"Apple CEO&comma; Tim Cook" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"163" class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-86291" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-86291" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Apple CEO&comma; Tim Cook<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Mr Cook said such a move would undermine encryption by creating a back door that could potentially be used on other devices&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fourteen people were killed on December 2 when a married couple opened fire on the husband&&num;8217&semi;s colleagues at an office lunch gathering in San Bernardino&comma; about 60 miles east of Los Angeles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>American-born Syed Farook&comma; 28&comma; and his wife&comma; Tashfeen Malik&comma; 29&comma; from Pakistan&comma; pledged allegiance to a leader of the Islamic State group on Facebook moments before the shooting&period; Both were later killed in a gun battle with police&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; Mr Gates and his wife Melinda have called on young people to get involved in solving major world problems such as finding clean energy sources and equality for women&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The couple&comma; who chair the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation&comma; the largest private philanthropic organisation in the world&comma; have made a tradition of releasing an annual letter and this year&&num;8217&semi;s edition calls on the young to be a driving force of innovation and change&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In her section of the letter&comma; Mrs Gates condemns the disparity in unpaid household labour between men and women&comma; saying that it is a problem that responsibilities for maintaining a home&comma; raising children and caring for the elderly still fall primarily on women and girls&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She said young people could help change cultural norms&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The way we change societal norms is by role-modelling publicly what the right thing to do is&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mrs Gates said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Her husband&comma; talking about the importance of cheap&comma; clean energy&comma; called on young people to study hard and come forward with ideas for what he called &&num;8220&semi;an energy miracle&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;When I say &&num;8216&semi;miracle&&num;8217&semi;&comma; 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