It’s Donald Trump vs Apple in the fight over your data

The tech company has found itself in another wrangle with the US government about unlocking a terror suspect’s iPhone, writes James Moore

Apple’s latest iPhone: the company is refusing to create a back door that law enforcement officials could use to break into them (Getty)

Apple’s Tim Cook vs Donald Trump? Does someone know who’s got the pay-per-view rights? Yes, the US president is squaring up to the tech company once again, sounding the bell with one of his trademark angry tweets.

“We are helping Apple all of the time on TRADE and so many other issues, and yet they refuse to unlock phones used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements. They will have to step up to the plate and help our great Country, NOW! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”

The caps are his, but then you knew that. The president’s intervention follows a complaint by the US attorney general, William Barr, that the company provided no “substantive assistance” to the FBI, which has been trying to unlock a pair of iPhones linked to a shooting at a Florida naval base.