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by ryandrake 1777 days ago
Anyone can imagine a hypothetical future feature and oppose it. What if Apple one day replaces all my music with Best of ABBA? That would be terrible, but they haven't done or proposed it, so why argue about it?
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Because that's not what's being argued here. Nobody in power cares enough to mass load ABBA onto your phone. But there's very powerful nation states who care, more than they care about anything else, to maintain power at any cost.
Could anyone have imagined law enforcement using Corona contact-tracing data for other purposes ?

Because that actually happened, and in a democratic country even.

So it's not hard to imagine what less democratic countries could demand of Apple.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-29/queensland-coronaviru...