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Of course it’s potentially rife with abusive power. And we need to make sure that this is a very temporary thing (admittedly it’s hard to put the genie back in the bottle). That said, you can’t advertise to the dead. There’s a very real need here, and some governments are off doing this on their own anyway. I do believe that at least Apple and Google combined can come up with a solution that has some amount of privacy protection that a state actor would never bother with themselves.



> admittedly it’s hard to put the genie back in the bottle

On iOS, entitlements?


I meant that once this capability is out there, people will point to it and say “see it can be done. Now do this, it’s law.”




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