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by yyyk 7y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/24/apple-moves-to-store-icloud-keys-in-china-raising-human-rights-fears.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/24/apple-moves-to-store-icloud-...
* Nearly all iPhone users use iCloud.
* If obeying 'local laws' is enough for Apple to allow external access to iCloud, the same logic must apply to the iPhone.
* Note that Apple refused similar requests by American courts.
- ineedasername 7y agoThat's a logical deduction, which might be true! But it also might not.
- asveikau 7y agoI really doubt nearly all iPhone users use iCloud. The ones on Hacker News might. I think a regular person would just shrug at prompts to set it up. I feel like most times I hear iCloud mentioned by non techies they are confused about what it is. Like when their storage is out and they get nagged about it.