Obama: We can't fetishize our phones
While the president said he couldn't comment on the specifics of the case, even his non-specific answers shed light on where he stands.
"If, technologically, it is possible to make an impenetrable device where there is no key, no door at all, how do we apprehend the child pornographer, how do we disrupt a terrorist plot?" Obama asked onstage in conversation with Texas Tribune editor-in-chief Evan Smith on Friday.
He cited the fact that law enforcement can get a warrant to search your room, "rifle through your underwear," if you are suspected of terrorism, and yet your phone is somehow off limits.
"It's fetishizing our phones above every other value, and that can't be the right answer."
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