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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

And some Motley Fool money radio show. I'm Chris Hone, joining me in studio this week for

Million Dollar Portfolio Jason Moser and Matt Argusinger and from Motley Fool Deep Value,

Ron Gross. Good to see you. We got the latest on tech, travel, insurance and more.

We will take a closer look at the rise of activist shareholders and as always, we're giving

an inside look at the stocks on our radar. But we begin this week with the growing battle between

Apple and the federal government. At the request of the FBI, a federal judge has ordered

Apple to provide new software to help the FBI unlock the encrypted iPhone of one of the

killers in the recent shootings in San Bernardino, California. CEO Tim Cook says the FBI's

request is unprecedented and wrote an open letter to customers saying that Apple's opposition

is not something the company takes lightly, but they do believe this is an overreach by the US government.

And Ron Gross, I'll just start with you. This is really tough because when you step back and

look at it, both the FBI and Apple are doing what they are supposed to be doing.

Yeah, I agree. It's very tough and I do see both sides of this. I don't see it as being cut and dry.

And I realize it's a slippery slope from Apple's perspective that they really don't want to go down.

I do believe, I think I believe, that there should be a way for Apple to comply in this one particular case

without putting all of our civil liberties at risk. That might be naive. Again, the slippery slope might come into play here,

but I think they should be able to take care of that. And I actually think the fact that we're operating under a law written in 1789,

the All Ritz Act here, may mean that it's time to kind of come up with some new laws to address the world we live in.

There weren't smartphones, but you got a pivot. And probably a constitutional lawyer or something like that

would say the same privacy rules apply whether it's through technology or carrier pageant.

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