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by beardyw 479 days ago
What does the US government have to do with it?
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The US government allowing a US company to operate in the US market, while the company enables a foreign country to access all US citizen's data. That's where the government is supposed to step in.
No, that is not the intention. If that were the case US diplomats would have intervened before now. Or maybe they were engaged in writing up what they did last week.
It's how I understood the UK's request to Apple, "Give us a global backdoor". If not, what was the intention?