Comment on iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information
Hiro8811@lemmy.world 16 hours agoDidn’t they bend the knee for China?
Comment on iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information
Hiro8811@lemmy.world 16 hours agoDidn’t they bend the knee for China?
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 15 hours ago
Sort of.
In 2017 China passed a law requiring Chinese user data to be held within the country: nytimes.com/…/apple-china-privacy-censorship.html
Following that, Apple paid for a local data center which is managed by a Chinese company. Functionally this means that the PRC has access to all of the data stored there, because the government exerts direct control over Chinese companies, especially anything related to data collection and storage. Most likely, the PRC is able to access Apple users’ iCloud data if it resides in the China-based data center.
This is not really different from what’s been happening with other countries requiring their citizens’ data to be held within their borders, and the UK has similarly forced Apple to withdraw the Advanced Data Protection for iCloud users: theverge.com/…/apple-uk-icloud-encrypted-backups-…