The new iPhone ships with basic encryption that will keep any unwanted guests out of your phone, be they criminals or government officials. Any user of iOS 8 just needs to set up a passcode in order to opt-in to encryption that denies Apple special access to a cell phone’s data.

Consequently, Apple is now unable to comply with government warrants for photos, email, contacts and other phone information for users who have enable this feature. Google has also announced that it will begin implementing similar encryption measures on new Android phones as well.

Predictably, law enforcement officials are upset that they will no longer have free reign to spy on cell phone usage.

“What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to hold themselves beyond the law,” FBI Director James Comey said at a press conference.

The Supreme Court’s ruling last year on the sanctity of the cell phone, requiring police to have a warrant before searching them, would seem to be at odds with Comey’s assertions that law enforcement should be able to access whatever data it wants whenever it wants.

The Electronic Frontier Foundations (EFF) points out that Comey’s complaints are nothing new. Law enforcement has long sought to mandate “back doors” into any encryption system.

“If the government howls of protest at the idea that people will be using encryption sound familiar, it’s because regulating and controlling consumer use of encryption was a monstrous proposal officially declared dead in 2001 after threatening Americans’ privacy, free speech rights, and innovation for nearly a decade,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn writes. “But like a zombie, it’s now rising from the grave, bringing the same disastrous flaws with it.”

The “new” encryption measures offered by Apple and Google are not even that new. Laptops and desktop computers have long featured disk encryption that manufacturers could not unlock.