Comment by ExoticPearTree
15 days ago
If Apple sticks to their guns, they can just stop doing business in the UK. And the UK government will have zero rights to demand anything from Apple.
15 days ago
If Apple sticks to their guns, they can just stop doing business in the UK. And the UK government will have zero rights to demand anything from Apple.
In China, Apple limits end to end encryption and stores user data on state-owned servers. The Chinese app stores censors apps like the New York Times and Washington Post, disallows privacy apps like Signal, or any VPN that might bypass the great firewall.
I think the odds that they quit trying to earn the ~$100B annual revenues they get from the UK over this is closer to zero than 1
They obviously don't care about privacy enough to fully withdraw from the UK! That would be insane.