>Which'd be fine if we had one global government with world wide jurisdiction.

I wholeheartedly disagree. A world wide goverment would be catastrophic for whistleblowing. Atleast as a whistleblower you can live somewhat safely in a country opposing your own. With a one world government you would have nowhere to run.

And I wouldn't expect them to protect citizen's interests any better than current governments do. Contrary, I think this lack of balance in the world would embolden them further.

They sell software designed to break into people's phones to oppressive regimes all over the planet. They definitely have the capability and requisite lack of ethics to compromise their own politicians; there's no probably about it.

But we don't have a global government, so the next best thing is for individual countries to pass such regulation, which would prevent products violating privacy like this from being offered and sold in those countries.

Think of GDPR, which is essentially each member of the EU saying in unison, "your product/service must comply with these data protection laws, or you can't legally do business with any of our citizens".

Come to think of it, I wonder if this Apple thing would even fly under GDPR?

> Come to think of it, I wonder if this Apple thing would even fly under GDPR?

Possibly? I’m not a lawyer, but if this is about compliance with a legal obligation, and they’re under that category of pressure? I think GDPR would allow that?

Certainly seems more likely allowed than the stuff Facebook complained Apple was preventing them from doing.