I don't think so. But Apple could face some hefty fines, and they would offer engineers more money to avoid such fines. If every engineer refused to do it at

I don't think so. But Apple could face some hefty fines, and they would offer engineers more money to avoid such fines. If every engineer refused to do it at any price, Apple would cease to exist. Around 2007-2008, Yahoo faced a $250,000 per day fine for non-compliance with the NSA's Prism program [1], according to documents released in 2014 [2] Note also that the CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang left his position at the end of 2008, after which time, it seems, they became compliant and the orders stopped. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%... [2] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/yahoo-nsa-lawsuit-documents-fine-user-data-refusal http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/yahoo-nsa-lawsu...