No Comment, That’s iPhone

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Back in August I wrote that Apple's privacy is priced, not principled. The argument was that how hard Apple fights a government depends on how much that government's market is worth. China gets the full treatment: new legal entities, new key custody, a whole restructure. That's because China brought in $20.5 billion in a single quarter this year. Smaller markets don't get that. Well. Here's a smaller market. Not smaller on the map, obviously. Russia is the biggest country on earth, with more than 140 million people. Smaller on Apple's balance sheet, for reasons we'll get to. AppleInsider reported Thursday that Russia has added Apple and Microsoft to its "organizers of information dissemination" registry. Roskomnadzor actually added them on October 2. It only surfaced when Bloomberg reported it on Wednesday. According to 9to5Mac's rundown of the Bloomberg piece, being on that list means three things. Apple has to store Russian users'…