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Apple already operate data centres in China without privacy controls - seemingly happy to provide full government access in exchange for access to a lucrative m
by Queenie_15 8y ago
Apple already operate data centres in China without privacy controls - seemingly happy to provide full government access in exchange for access to a lucrative market. Google currently have no operations in China.
- bufferoverflow 8y agoInteresting. I'm wrong then.
- londons_explore 8y agoApple's users in China don't have an expectation of privacy. Chinese consumers have never had a web service offer privacy, and therefore don't expect it. Apple running a priavcy-less service in China isn't violating the users expectations, as long as they don't ever claim it's private or secure. Australian users however do expect privacy. They do expect that their chat messages will only be read by the recipient and not the government.
- tinus_hn 8y agoApple servers in China are accessed by the same clients as Apple servers in the US. They don’t get to see the things Apple servers in de US don’t get to see. They get to see a lot and what happens with that is up to the Chinese government, just as it is up to the US government what happens to what the US servers see.
- throw_me_baby 8y agoNot really. They offloaded those data centers to 3p controllers. They refused backdoors publicly for the US, so likely they'd either exit publicly or create an "Aussie iCloud" like china.