The San Bernardino iPhone case burst on the scene as I was nearing the completion of this manuscript. I could not have imagined a better scenario to sum up the issues of free speech, privacy, intellectual property and security than this case. Not least because the San Bernardino Apple iPhone case generated considerable public interest and policy debate in the United States and abroad. At stake are issues such as the balance between national security and personal privacy, tensions between global technology companies and domestic law enforcement, and the potential supremacy of technology -- particularly encryption -- over traditional notions of public safety, as expressed in constitutional due process. At the root of this discourse is a more fundamental, and also more abstract, notion of trust between the government and its citizens, with questions about the role of consumer rights in light of market manifestations of personal information as a global community.