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STORY: GENEVA / ZEID APPLE
TRT: 02:30
SOURCE: OHCHR / FILE
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: RECENT GENEVA / FILE
FILE
1. Various shots, people using phones
RECENT – GENEVA
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, High Commissionor for Human Rights, United Nations:
“We urge the US authorities to proceed with great caution in the ongoing legal process involving Apple and the FBI given its potentially negative ramifications for the human rights of people all over the world. The FBI deserves everyone’s full support and its investigation into the San Bernardino killings, this was an abominable crime and no one involved in aiding or abetting it should escape the law. But this case is not about a company and its supporters seeking to protect criminals and terrorists. It is about where a key red line necessary to safeguard all of us from criminals and repression should be set.”
FILE - UNICEF - 24 FEBRUARY 2016, TABANOVCE, FYR OF MACEDONIA
3. Wide shot, boy looking at phone
RECENT – GENEVA
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, High Commissionor for Human Rights, United Nations:
“The authorities risk unlocking a Pandora’s box that could have extremely damaging implications for the human rights of many millions of people including the physical and the financial security. And this is not just about one case and one IT company and one country, it will have tremendous ramifications for the future of individual security elsewhere.”
FILE -UNICEF - 17 DECEMBER, 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
5. Med shot, woman on phone
RECENT – GENEVA
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, High Commissionor for Human Rights, United Nations:
“A successful case against Apple in the US would set a precedent that would make it impossible for Apple or any other major international IT company to safeguard the client’s privacy anywhere in the world. It is potentially a gift to authoritarian regimes as well as to criminal hackers.”
FILE -UNICEF - 17 DECEMBER, 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
7. Wide shot, man with cell phone
RECENT – GENEVA
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations:
“The debate around encryption is too focused on one side of the security coin. In particular its potential use for criminal purposes in times of terrorism. The other side of the security coin is that weakening encryption protections may bring even bigger dangers to national and international security.”
FILE -UNICEF - 17 DECEMBER, 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
9. Wide shot, phone kiosk
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Friday urged the US authorities to proceed with great caution in the ongoing legal process involving the Apple computer company and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), given its potentially negative ramifications for the human rights of people all over the world.
The UN human rights chief noted the decision earlier this week by a federal magistrate judge, in a separate case in New York, to reject a Government request to compel Apple to help it extract information from an iPhone belonging to a suspect in a drugs case.
He urged States to take inspiration from the Apple-FBI cases to hold a much-needed profound examination of the highly complex and constantly evolving issues relating to privacy and security in the digital age, given the importance of strong encryption in safeguarding security and human rights.
Zeid called on the 47-Member State Human Rights Council in particular to continue to examine the dramatic impact digital and other new technologies are having, and will continue to have, on human rights across the globe.
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