Americans divided over FBI case against Apple

- Americans are increasingly choosing the side of Apple in the case of the FBI at the smartphone maker. A survey by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News showed that 47 percent of respondents said that Apple should not cooperate with the FBI data request.

A small minority of 42 percent on the side of the federal police. Another 11 percent say there still have no strong opinion. What can not be seen entirely as a surprise to is that Republicans are much more critical about Apple than Democrats. Of Republican voters 57 percent to stand at the side of the FBI. When the Democrats is a comparable amount of people just behind Apple.

The FBI wants to Apple's iPhone one of the terrorists behind the San Bernardino-scale crack, but Apple refuses. According to CEO Tim Cook would have a back door into Apple's encrypted software-reaching consequences for all Apple users. Cook has already received support from the CEOs of almost all the major tech companies in Silicon Valley.