This is awful. I don’t think China would have kicked out Apple. Right now the default is iCloud is on. It’s on Apple to change that default to off in China, and only turn it on after a very very clear warning is presented to the user, with periodic reminders. Lives > convenience.https://twitter.com/rondeibert/status/967401214886363136 …
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“The basic principle of Chinese privacy law is that the underlying owner of all information about people (and the underlying owner of everything else, really) is the state.” https://www.twitter.com/yonatanzunger/status/967594746167177216 …
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Clay says Apple had no leverage. Probably. I’d say they still could’ve said no—come what may. Maybe the idea that the entire industrial base for tech and other industries could just be outsourced with no consequences for our rights wasn’t all justified.https://twitter.com/cshirky/status/967594193731203072?s=21 …
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Please explain consequences?
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I'm not commenting on what's at stake. I'm commenting on the Chinese govt's willingness to take punitive action, which is pretty consistent.
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Well now you know how it feels having non-US info on US controlled servers. This is just the latest case, forcing local storage and then local access has been happening for a long time now.
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