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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral Feb 28

    Aral Balkan Retweeted Connected Rights

    Apple “not only to store its Chinese customers’ iCloud data on Chinese servers, but to store the encryption keys for that information in the country too: http://on.wsj.com/2ESetY6 ” Because Chinese people don’t deserve privacy, right, @tim_cook? What’s the price of your principles?https://twitter.com/connectedrights/status/968823048668315648 …

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    Apple makes another worrying China decision http://connectedrights.net/2018/02/28/apple-makes-another-worrying-china-decision/ … pic.twitter.com/mBjZWzI07u
    5:41 AM - 28 Feb 2018
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      2. Ingo‏ @lasombra_br Feb 28
        Replying to @aral

        I think he recently said that it’s not about the money. Clearly he’s lying or the Chinese market is a parallel universe.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Feb 28
        Replying to @lasombra_br

        So he’ll compromise on one of their self-avowed base principles why exactly, because someone asked nicely? Not sure that makes it any better. And yes, of course it’s about money. China could shut Apple down tomorrow if it wanted to; their supply chain is entirely at its mercy.

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      4. Ingo‏ @lasombra_br Feb 28
        Replying to @aral

        I think it’s all about who was the bigger bite. The US clearly doesn’t since Apple postured and won. China? As you said, they can shut Apple out on a whim. Yes, they compromised in exchange for market access. It will probably do it again on another country with such a bite

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      2. Fabien Marry  ✏️‏ @Fabien_UX Feb 28
        Replying to @aral

        BTW, you might know the answer to this… There are data protection law somewhere that say personal data must be stored in the EU, but that doesn’t seem to apply for cloud storage?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Feb 28
        Replying to @Fabien_UX

        “Privacy Shield” (the latest term for the smoke and mirrors bullshit after the previous smoke and mirrors bullshit “Safe Harbour” was revealed to be smoke and mirrors bullshit) means that it can be. Afaik, that will not change with GDPR.

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      4. Fabien Marry  ✏️‏ @Fabien_UX Feb 28
        Replying to @aral

        Ok thanks. :/

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      1. Oliver Asztalos‏ @oliver_asztalos Feb 28
        Replying to @aral @tim_cook

        A couple of billions dollars.

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      1. Desiḵn‏ @desiknr Feb 28
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        For (most) companies money trumps principles.

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      1. Fabien Marry  ✏️‏ @Fabien_UX Feb 28
        Replying to @aral

        Am wondering why apple hasn’t already end to end encrypted all iCloud backups yet. That surely must be in progress, maybe they hoped it’d be ready before the switch.

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