1/ #Apple has stored the data of thousands of customers on #Chinese servers and censored apps to please the government that controls most of its supply chain, the New York Times reports
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2/ Apple has catered to China’s government as it relies on China’s supply chain, the NYT reports.
Tim Cook approved using servers run by Chinese firms to store customer data.
That would make it easy for authorities to access the information of millions of Chinese citizens.
Tim Cook approved using servers run by Chinese firms to store customer data.
That would make it easy for authorities to access the information of millions of Chinese citizens.
3/ CEO Tim Cook green-lit using servers run by Chinese state-owned companies to store customer data.
China also reportedly wouldn’t accept Apple’s use of encryption technology that it typically uses in its data server centers, so the company agreed to abandon it.
China also reportedly wouldn’t accept Apple’s use of encryption technology that it typically uses in its data server centers, so the company agreed to abandon it.
4/ That made it easy for authorities to siphon sensitive information from millions of Chinese citizens such as emails, photos, and locations, security experts told the outlet. Such sharing of sensitive information is illegal by US law, as the Times notes.
5/ The tech giant has also complied with the Communist Party’s demands to censor about 55,000 apps from its App Store since 2017 that authorities deemed to be harmful to the government’s values, sources told the Times.
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