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Mark Grabowski, J.D., discusses issues of personal privacy and corporate responsibility.

With Apple鈥檚 recent refusal to comply with the FBI鈥檚 request for a back door to break into the phone of one of the San Bernardino, California, shooters, much has been said about the personal privacy rights . While pundits and the public debate whether or not they should support Apple鈥檚 statement in defense of privacy rights, Mark Grabowski, J.D., associate professor in , argues in the听听that no matter what the outcome of this battle, the public will lose.

Grabowski notes while the cause for protecting consumers is a noble one, Apple as a company has also had a history of using its influence to be above the laws of the democratic process of the country. He says in the article, 鈥淎mericans face a predicament: Do they support a government pushing for surveillance reminiscent of the dystopian society fictionalized in Orwell鈥檚 chilling classic Nineteen Eighty-Four? Or do they rally behind a greedy, opportunistic corporation that seems to think it鈥檚 above the law?鈥�