Posted on 05/17/2021 4:35:48 PM PDT by Theoria
Apple built the world’s most valuable business on top of China. Now it has to answer to the Chinese government.
On the outskirts of this city in a poor, mountainous province in southwestern China, men in hard hats recently put the finishing touches on a white building a quarter-mile long with few windows and a tall surrounding wall. There was little sign of its purpose, apart from the flags of Apple and China flying out front, side by side.
Inside, Apple was preparing to store the personal data of its Chinese customers on computer servers run by a state-owned Chinese firm.
Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, has said the data is safe. But at the data center in Guiyang, which Apple hoped would be completed by next month, and another in the Inner Mongolia region, Apple has largely ceded control to the Chinese government.
Chinese state employees physically manage the computers. Apple abandoned the encryption technology it used elsewhere after China would not allow it. And the digital keys that unlock information on those computers are stored in the data centers they’re meant to secure.
Internal Apple documents reviewed by The New York Times, interviews with 17 current and former Apple employees and four security experts, and new filings made in a court case in the United States last week provide rare insight into the compromises Mr. Cook has made to do business in China. They offer an extensive inside look — many aspects of which have never been reported before — at how Apple has given in to escalating demands from the Chinese authorities.
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The word to use is “whores”.
Major censorship courtesy of Google.
NYT citing anonymous sources. There's probably not very much in this article that is true.
Chinese state employees physically manage the computers. Apple abandoned the encryption technology it used elsewhere after China would not allow it. And the digital keys that unlock information on those computers are stored in the data centers they’re meant to secure.
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A perfect example of modern fascism.
Time to pay up, Apple!
Didn't think your day of reckoning would come, did you?
When you play with poisonous snakes, you're bound to get bitten sooner or later.
No American company should be allowed to participate in this, and no company that does this should be allowed to do business in America.
I’m guessing the “Hard Bargain” is that Apple has to give the CCP data rather than selling it to them.
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