I saw a report that the phone was purchased and provided by the San Bernardino Health Department to their employee, and the Health Department has approved the search of the phone by the FBI.

So if in terms of records issues, if you provided a phone to your employee and the employee died (while not killing a bunch of his co-workers) would it not seem reasonable for the health department to be the owner of the phone and data - even though they may not have the access code for the phone?

Should not Apple have the ability to reset the passcode and provide the information to the owner of the phone - in this case the health department?

Beyond this case, this is a real question as more public agencies are purchasing mobile devices for their employees - who is the Apple customer? Is it the agency/company that buys the device or the user of that device?

I would assume that the health department as the purchaser of the phone - which should be easy to confirm - would be the owner of the data. Therefore Apple is denying access to the owner of the data.

Again, I saw one report which listed that the health department bought the phone - and have not had time to confirm it - but it started me thinking.  Appreciate any additional discussion or additional information on this.

Caroline J Walters, CRM
University Records Officer
Information Security, Policy & Records Office
University of Virginia
Box 400898
Charlottesville, VA 22904
(434) 243-9162
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