# Professor Scott Galloway comments on Apple's impending legal fight with the Justice Department to defend encryption on its iPhones

1 Faculty News January 14, 2020 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/technology/apple-iphone-pensacola-shooting.html) -- “'It’s brilliant marketing'” [Scott Galloway](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/scott-galloway), a New York University marketing professor who has written a book on the tech giants, said of Apple. 'They’re so concerned with your privacy that they’re willing to wave the finger at the F.B.I.'”

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