Reuters:
When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users’ iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center at the end of this month to comply with new laws there, Chinese authorities will have far easier access to text messages, email and other data stored in the cloud.
That’s because of a change to how the company handles the cryptographic keys needed to unlock an iCloud account. Until now, such keys have always been stored in the United States, meaning that any government or law enforcement authority seeking access to a Chinese iCloud account needed to go through the U.S. legal system.
Now, according to Apple, for the first time the company will store the keys for Chinese iCloud accounts in China itself.
Apple is caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place on this issue.
When in Rome,…
If Cook and the rest had the courage of their (stated) convictions, they’d pull out of China. I suppose it’s only in the West where their fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders aren’t necessarily the primary obligation.
Not a big deal. The ironic thing is that America has changed so much since 9/11, even its citizens have forgotten how it was before. CBP agents are able to force you to give up your social media passwords, which would have been unimaginable back then.
Virtue Signalling Apple bends the knee.
What difference does it make? If you think Apple has won the encryption battle with the feds in this country, you are mistaken.
They can ask, but you are not required to give them up. They just trick people into thinking they’re required.
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“Apple is caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place on this issue.” … no they are not – now they have done it for China – they have demonstrated that they will do this for any country … just dont doit – they call it principles.
adding to the ever growing list of why it is time to leave.
Nice plan, if you can afford to give up what your taxes have already paid for.
🙂
Yes, as a Canadian I’m unhappy with Apple storing keys in the US. The reason it doesn’t matter so much is the American courts have already decided they have the rights to data anywhere in the world, so it really doesn’t matter.
I guess he should also pull out of the USA.
Remember Guantanamo?
I think the critique here is on the convictions (which aren’t really convictions). Apple’s privacy stance opens them up to this line of criticism—either they stick to it hard and pull out of China, or they need to be more honest as to what can and can’t be private, and not use it as a marketing cudgel.
Microsoft does the same with its Azure service in China, and Microsoft has a bigger shoulders with its humongous install base.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/02/19/china-icloud – especially the apple support docs at the end. Note that even Apple can’t read things that are encrypted end to end (and if you’re going to veer off into conspiracy “oh that’s what they say…” land, don’t bother.)
Second, everyone jumping on Apple needs to pounce on Microsoft too – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/china/china-welcome
Right. Like that will happen.
Human rights is the main concern here.
Apple can do nothing in this case, China is a sovereign state. Apple is obliged by the law of that country.
Apple does business in Israel and Turkey after all.
I do not condone many of China’s Communist Party actions, but I do understand, anyone should try at least.
The last big world war was not so long ago.
did not know that – even so, Microsoft has not demonstrated in such a public way that they are for personal privacy as Apple has.
Indeed.
The European Union does hail that flag, meanwhile it is in bed with China.
Apple is just a corporation.
Capitalism