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Only if you're a Chinese citizen in China. From the article: "Apple to move Chinese iCloud keys to China servers...Once on Chinese soil, government agencies wi
by sjwright 8y ago
Only if you're a Chinese citizen in China.
From the article: "Apple to move Chinese iCloud keys to China servers...Once on Chinese soil, government agencies will be able to request information through the Chinese legal system, which lacks the transparency, checks or oversight of its American counterpart."
If you think the US Government would never act without transparency, checks or oversight, you are being delusional. And factually wrong.
Apple is complying with the local laws, just as it does in all other countries. The suggestion that Apple should breach these laws—or exit the market entirely—is absurd and unproductive.
- tylerl 8y agoThe difference is that traditional "free" governments don't maintain the entrenchment of existing political officials and the competitive dominance of their own domestic industry as a defensive justification for using their legal system to force companies to disclose, steal, falsify, or destroy information in secret. Companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft are free to challenge court orders from the US or other friendly governments, even those ordered in secret, and they regularly do so. You don't hear about it, but it's pretty common. And these cases do get the scrutiny of many eyes, following similar legal paths as more traditional court challenges, only without all the news coverage.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y agoHave you tried replacing "China" with "Hitler Germany" in your argument? Do you think it still applies? Or can you explain why not?
- fooker 8y agoInterestingly, IBM successfully used similar arguments after WW2 and escaped with barely a scratch on their reputation.