re: Whose Side Is Bill Barr On? (The New York Times, January 15, 2020)
The American people are fortunate that a great American company is committed to protecting the basic rights of Americans from the US government and law enforcement agencies, which sometimes appear to forget that the US is not a communist surveillance state modelled on China's despotic control of citizens.
Apple is right that a strong right to privacy is not compatible with back doors that give the state access to anything it wants, however seeming compelling the reason. Breaking it for one case breaks the right to privacy, and that's not worth the cost, not even to stop terrorism.
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