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Because, it's a massive centralized decrypted data repository, law enforcement can simply ask for the data and the company will hand it over. It's not their data so they don't care to defend it but because of the third party doctrine it's legally their data to hand off w/o your permission.

Peer to peer or end to end encryption removes this trivially easy access, which is why they don't like it.



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