Everything You Need to Know About Apple vs. the FBI, Explained

Normally on Too Embarrassed to Ask, we talk about several things — like last week’s episode, which covered Snapchat and Pinterest.

Not so this week. Kara Swisher and Lauren Goode devoted the full episode to the ongoing feud between Apple and the FBI over security, privacy and encryption, which stems from the San Bernardino shootings last year that left 14 people dead and 22 injured. It’s a complex topic, and we received more questions from our listeners in advance of this episode than we have for any episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask before it.

Dawn Chmielewski, Re/code’s policy expert, joined Kara and Lauren via Skype this week. And also joining via Skype for the second half of the episode was Ted Boutrous, a lawyer for Apple who discussed how the tech giant is approaching the legal battle.

Thank you to everyone who submitted questions — remember that you can always send in questions about any topic to us by tweeting @LaurenGoode, @KaraSwisher or @Recode with the hashtag #AskRecode.

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Kara Swisher will be back in this space next week, but you can also hear her right now interviewing the movers and shakers in tech and media on Re/code Decode. Click here to subscribe on iTunes. And on Re/code Replay, you can hear all the audio from our live events, including some can’t-miss sessions from Code/Media 2016. To subscribe to that, click right here.

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This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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