Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates set tongues wagging in the tech world and beyond on Monday when he seemingly broke rank with the company he created as well as most of Silicon Valley on a major digital privacy issue.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Gates seemed to sympathize with the U.S. government’s position that Apple Inc. should make new software to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation get access to an iPhone belonging to one of the shooters from December’s attack in San Bernardino, California. Gates told FT that he didn’t agree with Apple that compelling it to engineer a way to access the shooter’s data would create a back door into personal devices or set a wide precedent for future invasion of privacy.
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