[EagnaIonat]

> Your phone is your most trusted agent

What makes you think your phone is the most trusted device? Do you know everything that is running on your phone and what it does?

If a government wanted to enforce it then none of what Apple suggested mattered.

In fact they wouldn't even need to release a paper explaining what they planned to do.

This has been the fallacy against the whole argument.

[nullc]

My message was an informal argument. Apple has proposed and (now) applied the same spyware technology to their desktop/laptop operating system as well. But for most people in the US their phone absolute does occupy that most-trusted niche. For better or worse. The fact that this trust may currently be ill-advised is all the more reason people should demand change that makes it possible.

> If a government wanted to enforce it then none of what Apple suggested mattered.

Perhaps you live in a dicatorship. If so, I'm sorry. In the united states the power of the government is limited by the constitution. The kind of automated surveillance performed nominally 'consensually' via corporations would be unambiguously unlawful for the government to perform.