Apple Cedes Control Over Chinese Customers' Data to Beijing, Supports Large-Scale Government Censorship, Report
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Apple has largely ceded control over its Chinese customers’ data to the Chinese government, abandoning the Thales hardware security modules it uses elsewhere to favor its own weaker protections. According to internal Apple documents and interviews with seventeen current and former Apple employees, the abandonment of the tougher protections allows Beijing to gain access to user data when it needs it.
Apple has also given legal ownership of its customers’ data to Guizhou-Cloud Big Data, a company owned by the government of Guizhou Province. According to the picture painted by these sources, in contrast to Apple’s strong stance on civil liberties in Western nations, the Cupertino tech giant has put Chinese customers’ data at risk. Apple has also supported large-scale government censorship of its app store under the …
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