Apple have reluctantly been in the surveilance industry for years, due the governments far-reaching and uncontestable court orders. Now it seems they've willingly jumped in with both feet.
I often wonder with USA whether TLA's have a bounty on certain tech, like implement a tracker we can piggyback on and we'll provide a $X00M bonus, implement an email parsing service, implement a street-facing webcam system, implement a household based microphone array with remote access, etc..
They'd be state level equivalents to a parent slipping a tracker in a kids bag, or reading their messages, or whatever.
