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> ...ongoing demands from governments, law enforcement agencies and child safety campaigners for more assistance in criminal investigations, including terrorism

> ...ongoing demands from governments, law enforcement agencies and child safety campaigners for more assistance in criminal investigations, including terrorism and child pornography. I get why they're making these demands, but this is in the US. This would clearly be an unreasonable search by Fourth Amendment standards if it were done by the government, so I'm not sure why government agencies think they can make demands that they, themelves can't legally execute of a private company. To be clear, it's legal for Apple to do this, and legal for the government to ask them to. The government is just laundering its door-to-door search.

nullifidian 5y ago
It's also indicative of the unhealthy relationship these giant semi-monopolistic companies have with the government(s), that they implement the government's supposed will out of the fear of anti-trust actions/legislation, without any need for the government to pass legislation. Same goes for the demands to curb "misinformation" of various kinds, which basically constitutes government mandated speech regulation, even though the standing jurisprudence clearly forbids it.