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Originally Posted by Paul
Thats easy to answer, so should be a very short case - "No, it doesnt".
The old "National Security" excuse is complete nonsense. If Apple or WhatsApp made backdoors, the "National Security" threats would simply move elsewhere, leaving the rest of us open to attack by criminals who get hold of the "backdoor".
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Apple isn't a UK company but has stores here, probably offices, and sells products and services to UK customers.
They can't control what they do compared to if it was a UK company. But they could in theory say that if Apple wanted to continue offering products and services to UK customers, it would need to comply with UK law, and also they could say that if they are not complying with requests from UK bodies that they could no longer sell products and services in the UK.
Doing that for something like this would just mean other people would be able to provide work arounds, or that they would lose a lot of tax from sales etc, so it wouldn't be a decision which would be popular or useful to make.
It would be interesting to see what would ultimately happen when the OSA is in full swing and some random site in the USA or South Africa or something is being interrogated by the UK authorities because some 15 year old saw something they shouldn't have.