America is kneeling down to the same playbook that authoritarian regimes use, just a more vanilla version of it. Ready to be exploited one day. I am happy that the tech community on HN and elsewhere are speaking up about this. I was expecting it to be just another "think of the children" theatre ready to be swept under the rug. Major newspapers are talking about it. If anything else, next time they say the word "Privacy" at the Apple WWDC, we should boo that non-sense and let them pay the price in PR-damage. Apple spent last 3-4 years building their image as privacy-pro alternative to Google/FB/Microsoft in various product/service categories. They compltely fucked up. Privacy is about trust and it takes a single event to forever destroy it.