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>>kotaKa+(OP)
This is the worst thing to happen to technology in recent times since there is only two major phone OS's.

It isn't possible to ban encryption, so the governments have to chip away at security and privacy using these techniques.

From: https://developer.android.com/developer-verification

"You may also need to upload official government ID."

This won't end well for Google or the governments involved when the people get so angry that they are forced to roll this back. Switch to an alternative phone OS.

>>Ms-J+Mt
> the people get so angry that they are forced to roll this back.

This is political fantasy. There is no mechanism for "the people" to force anyone to roll this back. They can vote for the candidate owned by google, or the candidate owned by google. If they want to find another candidate, they'll have to use google to find one.

>>pessim+8F
If enough people internal at Google get pissed off and raise this up enough it can legitimately get rolled back.

>>rockem+0H
You mean the people actively building this system? I have to assume it's decently far along for them to make this announcement.

>>gumby2+sX
Do you recognize that a 100,000+ person organization might contain a large number of people who disagree with any random project at any given time?

This has happened before.