Internal strife at Apple on iPhone spyware
“Apple employees have flooded an Apple internal Slack channel with more than 800 messages on the plan announced a week ago, workers who asked not to be identified told Reuters. Many expressed worries that the feature could be exploited by repressive governments looking to find other material for censorship or arrests, according to workers who saw the days-long thread.
But any country’s legislature or courts could demand that any one of those elements be expanded, and some of those nations, such as China, represent enormous and hard to refuse markets, critics said.”
Honestly, my guess would be that China has already inquired Apple about screening on—device content for dissidents or this is already built in. I can guarantee you one thing - that China does nothing in regards to this. Having the ability to side step end-to-end encryption is a no brained for any surveillance state. Even the US has fought app makers for building e2e claiming reasons of terrorism (which is akin to the Chinese argument). China can easily apply pressure to Apple both because their phones are manufactured there but also because they’re sold there.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/12/sources-apples-child-protection-features-spark-internal-concerns.html
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It's a hard decision for Apple so I'm thinking of dumping APPL stock now.