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Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk)
"A grieving father is begging Apple to allow him access to the photos stored on his dead son's iPhone," reports Time. In September Leonardo Fabbretti's adopted son died of bone cancer at age 13, and the father believes that two months of photographs are still stored on his son's iPhone. Last fall Apple staff attempted to retrieve the photos from their cloud-storage service, but the iPhone hadn't been synced before the 13-year-old's death. "Don't deny me the memories of my son," the father writes in a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook.
The father's letter tells Apple that "Although I share your philosophy in general, I think Apple should offer solutions for exceptional cases like mine," according to a British newspaper, while 88% of respondents in their online poll believed that Apple should unlock the phone.
And this is why Apple and all those on the privacy side will lose:
People do NOT want phones that no one can unlock.
You might. There may be plenty of good reasons for them to exist.
But the vast majority of people do not. If you tell them that there's no way for Apple to let their loves ones onto their phone should they meet an untimely death, people are going to use other products.
People just don't want perfect security. They want to be just secure enough to prevent the majority of crime, and no more. They WANT the police to be able to break into their phones.