Source: AppleInsider News
Apple's pattern of feature withdrawal rather than backdoor compliance—demonstrated in the UK with Advanced Data Protection—is a deliberate negotiating tactic that forces governments to choose between security theater and losing popular services. Canada's proposed encryption law creates the same binary the UK faced: either accept Apple's security standards or watch Canadians lose access to protective features that competitors might eventually offer. Regulators frame this as a safety issue; Apple reframes it as a consumer preference fight, where its leverage comes not from technical resistance but from making restrictions visible and costly.