Well you could use the information that you just accepted is collected to identify which phones are in custody by the police, which phones have been stolen, los

Well you could use the information that you just accepted is collected to identify which phones are in custody by the police, which phones have been stolen, lost or left without a user - that's all very easy actually considering the apple network and the number of their devices. Having a few lines of code to dictate what happens once a phone has been identified as any of the above is pretty simple stuff. I think this restart is for Apple - an easy attempt to restore the devices network connection (and the data stream from it) and has little or nothing to do with law enforcement originally but now Apple will say that's the whole entire reason this exists bc privacy. Anyways, it was absolutely relevant info to the article and considering it and more - it's obvious that Apple could have done this, or something like it, to thwart cops but is very unlikely.