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Re:Apple publishes human rights policy, commits to freedom o... by K0nserv on Friday September 04, 2020 @10:46AM (#24375368)
The challenged the FBI in court to protect the privacy and rights of their users, so you they can at least state they will challenge any such requests to the fullest extent of the law.

They could also commit to not enter markets where local law isn't compatible with human rights and "freedom of information and expression". Although the most relevant such country is China and no way are they leaving that market and in addition their whole supply chain is massively dependent on China.

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Re:Apple publishes human rights policy, commits to freedom o... by sneak on Friday September 04, 2020 @11:46PM (#24381264)
Apple essentially failed to patch a current plaintext backdoor to iMessage end to end encryption (due to the fact that device backups, on by default, containing complete plaintext message history are NOT end to end encrypted and are uploaded to Apple with Apple keys each night) because they didn’t want to cross the FBI.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

https://sneak.berlin/20200604/if-zoom-is-wrong-so-is-apple/

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Re:Apple publishes human rights policy, commits to freedom o... by baddox on Saturday September 05, 2020 @02:51AM (#24381816)
Challenging the FBI in court is not in violation of US laws.
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Re:Apple publishes human rights policy, commits to freedom o... by xenospn on Friday September 04, 2020 @12:37PM (#24376507)
Doesn't Google make phones in china without being otherwise active there?
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Re:Apple publishes human rights policy, commits to freedom o... by themacguffinman on Friday September 04, 2020 @09:07PM (#24380574)
They're starting to move Pixel production to Vietnam. It's also less of a freedom of information and expression issue when the Play Store doesn't operate in China like the App Store does.
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