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I like the position apple is taking, However, after reading the letter, I noticed it misses a point I consider even more important than just "a dangerous preced
by Fiahil 11y ago
I like the position apple is taking, However, after reading the letter, I noticed it misses a point I consider even more important than just "a dangerous precedent".
Apple is selling devices on the whole planet, not just in the USA. So, what's the FBI (an American agency) is requesting is not dangerous for only American citizen, but also for iPhones' owners in Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania. Hell, these people are not even part of the debate, because they don't belong in the "American democracy".
If I'm going to be affected by someone else's policies, I would like to be at least allowed in the discussion.
- err4nt 11y agoI wouldn't worry too much about non-American apple users. Those of us outside the US know how tangled law and tech can be - and so people guarding information tend to use non-American cloud services for example. If this goes through I just expect more people internationally to choose something else. Not a big loss to them, but the loss of business to Apple (a US company) might be felt.