Location tracking restrictions? actively keeping users’ locations private is hardly an antitrust or other DOJ issue.
Those are good things and I use them. Those are not good things for DoJ when they subpoena application logs from cooperating software companies.
I wouldn't put it past DoJ to shake down Apple for a backdoor into IOS.
Relevant anecdote:
TSA instituted the rule that all luggage sent thru “checked baggage” be unlocked. This being objected to by many, they conceded by allowing bags be secured with a lock which they had a master key to. Baggage makers duly conceded, and TSA ended up having a half-dozen master keys that could open any legally locked luggage.
Then Wired magazine did a story on the subject.
They got a photo of the master keys.
They published the photo of the master keys.
In 3 hours flat, you could buy a TSA master key on eBay.
Don’t let governments have master keys.
I consider gov’t-instituted “backdoors” a 3rd Amendment violation. One purpose of “quartering soldiers” was to present suspects with a “chilling effect”, dissuading dissenting behavior lest legally actionable content/behaviors be observed and ruthlessly acted on, simplifying paths to 4th Amendment searches/seizures. “Backdoors” places a virtual gov’t agent at your door, allowing entrance and observation without real cause and without ability to functionally resist search/seizure.