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		brink 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypte... Why would you suspect that the US pushed their hand on this? This is not out of character at all for the UK.

alt227 10 months ago [–]

Thats what Five Eyes does and always has done. It asks other countries for info on their own citizens so that they do not have to break their own laws in accessing their data directly.

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