Edward Snowden explains what Apple is up to

... "Apple’s proposal to make their phones inform on and betray their owners marks the dawn of a dark future, one to be written in the blood of the political opposition of a hundred countries that will exploit this system to the hilt. See, the day after this system goes live, it will no longer matter whether or not Apple ever enables end-to-end encryption, because our iPhones will be reporting their contents before our keys are even used." ...

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The All-Seeing "i": Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy - by Edward Snowden - Continuing Ed — with Edward Snowden (substack.com)

Looks like the only solution is to stop using the iPhone. If the government orders people to use iPhones or makes life impossible for other 'smartphone' companies, this would be a problem.   

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