> Non-Chinese Apple accounts also work perfectly well in China, which leads me to believe that the extent of data sharing is greater than has been disclosed (or

> Non-Chinese Apple accounts also work perfectly well in China, which leads me to believe that the extent of data sharing is greater than has been disclosed (or dissidents could just use a foreign phone to avoid surveillance). The Chinese state could make foreign iphones unattractive to dissidents fairly easily without needing to compromise icloud. Simply discover the foreign iphones by a process of elimination, and make it clear that having one attracts much more surveillance.