ProtonMail, an encrypted email services, just stepped into the market as a Swiss-based answer to the rising security demand. Under such circumstances, IT service providers are enhancing their product portfolio with more advanced security capabilities in order to meet the rising market demand for security and privacy. The FBI’s demand from Apple escalated to a human rights discussion, and questioning the state’s attitude to respecting privacy and security rights of citizens. Data leaks like the Panama Papers are leading to discussions on the credibility of the financial system itself and its institutions. Just looking at these few examples from early 2016 news, it is quite obvious that data security and privacy concerns are rapidly growing. The US Department of Justice dropped the case. On March 28, the FBI announced that a third party had helped it unlock the phone. Apple declined to create the software and Tim Cook, CEO of Apple expressed that such an attempt has implications far beyond the legal case at hand, threatening data security and privacy rights of people.
The phone was locked with a password and was set to erase all its data content after ten failed password attempts. All of the information was verified as authentic by the Associated Press.Ī bit earlier, in February, the FBI requested that Apple create new software that would enable the FBI to unlock an iPhone 5C which was recovered from one of the shooters in a December 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, that killed 14 people and injured 22. The file includes names, addresses, parents’ first names, cities of birth, birth dates, and a national identifier number used by the Turkish government. The following Monday, an anonymous hacker uploaded a 1.4 gigabyte torrent file onto the web, which contained personal data on 50 million Turkish citizens. The documents exposed a widespread system of global tax evasion implicating some of the world’s leaders and top businessmen.
Going back nearly 40 years, they detailed information about more than 214,000 offshore companies listed by the law firm, including the identities of company shareholders and directors. On April 3rd, the world was shaken by the Panama Papers, a set of 11.5 million leaked confidential documents that were obtained from the law firm of Mossack Fonseca.
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