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July 18, 2018 07:32 pm GMT
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Apple iCloud data in China now stored by state-owned company
A state-owned telecommunications company in China now stores the iCloud data for Apple’s China-based users. This is really bad news for dissidents and critics of the government.
In February, Apple caused an uproar when it announced it would be moving Chinese users’ iCloud accounts — and their encryption keys — to a China-based server company Guizhou-Cloud Big Data. Human rights advocates warned this move would be dangerous, especially so for Chinese dissidents. Apple’s response was that it simply had no choice but to comply if it wanted to continue providing its iCloud service to Chinese customers. Read more...
More about Apple, Privacy, China, Censorship, and IcloudOriginal Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/mashable/tech/~3/hCapVvksYK0/
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