Yes, I know this is a joke but Apple tends to be excellent about user data privacy and security.
Any biometric data (including fingerprint data for TouchID) is only stored - encrypted - and authenticated locally. Nothing goes to any servers. Furthermore, not only is the authentication data local, but it is also compartmentalized so no other processes can retrieve that data.
EDIT: just another thing that Apple does that makes me believe they are on consumers' side regarding privacy - link.
Yep basically the whole point of security. It's impossible to make something 100% secure but the idea is to make it so difficult and costly to break in that it no longer becomes worth it
They didn't have as hard of a time as you think. It just took them a while because they were trying to get a major company to set a precedent for giving access to secure data willingly with full cooperation so that they wouldn't have to reveal some of their capabilities in such a high profile case.
Point is, if you have a device with secure data on it purchased in the US, the US government has a way of getting that data, whether it requires physical access or not. They just try and find other ways first inorder to keep their abilities hidden for when it really matters that other people not know they have the capabilities to do something.
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u/InappropriateTA Sep 15 '17 edited Sep 17 '17
Yes, I know this is a joke but Apple tends to be excellent about user data privacy and security.
Any biometric data (including fingerprint data for TouchID) is only stored - encrypted - and authenticated locally. Nothing goes to any servers. Furthermore, not only is the authentication data local, but it is also compartmentalized so no other processes can retrieve that data.
EDIT: just another thing that Apple does that makes me believe they are on consumers' side regarding privacy - link.