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 (DIR) Post #AB3WMiuUQh8AsFI0Bs by popi@social.nomagic.uk
       2021-09-05T14:50:59.874283Z
       
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       “Apple has become a cog in the censorship machine that presents a government-controlled version of the internet,” said Nicholas Bequelin, Asia director for Amnesty International, the human rights group. “If you look at the behavior of the Chinese government, you don’t see any resistance from Apple — no history of standing up for the principles that Apple claims to be so attached to.”https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-censorship-data.html#apple #China #privacy #collaboration #censorship 
       
 (DIR) Post #AB3WMjRSS7VCWUiKZs by popi@social.nomagic.uk
       2021-09-05T14:53:24.776226Z
       
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       A Times analysis found that tens of thousands of apps have disappeared from Apple’s Chinese App Store over the past several years, more than previously known, including foreign news outlets, gay dating services and encrypted messaging apps. It also blocked tools for organizing pro-democracy protests and skirting internet restrictions, as well as apps about the Dalai Lama.
       
 (DIR) Post #AB3WMjvwcltA32yg64 by popi@social.nomagic.uk
       2021-09-05T15:02:36.510502Z
       
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       U.S. law has long prohibited American companies from turning over data to Chinese law enforcement. But Apple and the Chinese government have made an unusual arrangement to get around American laws.In China, Apple has ceded legal ownership of its customers’ data to Guizhou-Cloud Big Data, or GCBD, a company owned by the government of Guizhou Province, whose capital is Guiyang. Apple recently required its Chinese customers to accept new iCloud terms and conditions that list GCBD as the service provider and Apple as “an additional party.” Apple told customers the change was to “improve iCloud services in China mainland and comply with Chinese regulations.”The terms and conditions included a new provision that does not appear in other countries: “Apple and GCBD will have access to all data that you store on this service” and can share that data “between each other under applicable law.”