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2021-05-19 Cyber

How Tim Cook agreed to hand over the data of all Chinese Apple users to the Communist government and allow its servers to be run by state officials in return for being able to do business with Beijing

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

The state employees are said to manage servers at its data center in Guiyang and another in the Inner Mongolia region, The New York Times reports

That means the government is able to access personal data of Chinese residents

Encryption technology used by Apple has also been banned, the report says

Apps said to have disappeared include foreign news site and gay dating services

Topics banned include Tiananmen Square, independence for Tibet and Taiwan

This is all despite Tim Cook's vow to protect civil liberties which saw the release of a controversial new privacy controls in April

They require iPhone users to give permission for apps to track their activity

Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 Good. Best way to treat these companies. Keep their influence controlled and their noses to the floor. Every nation state should learn.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-19 03:15|| 2021-05-19 03:15|| Front Page Top

#2 So China got the same deal as the US GIVERnment.

Posted by Airandee 2021-05-19 06:54|| 2021-05-19 06:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, Lenin said the capitalists would sell the commies the rope they would hang us with. Guys like Cook will sell everyone around them and cut and run.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-05-19 06:58|| 2021-05-19 06:58|| Front Page Top

#4 cut and run where?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-05-19 07:08|| 2021-05-19 07:08|| Front Page Top

#5 cut and run where?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-05-19 07:08|| 2021-05-19 07:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Pete and repeat
Effectiveness in getting a point across.

Posted by Cleart Glavimble2798 2021-05-19 07:16|| 2021-05-19 07:16|| Front Page Top

#7 So, Apple is now an unregistered foreign lobbyist?

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-05-19 07:43|| 2021-05-19 07:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe cut and run to Mexico. It worked for Trotsky, after all, until the mountain climbing accident.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-05-19 16:31|| 2021-05-19 16:31|| Front Page Top

#9 This woosy is no Steve Jobs.

Posted by Anginetle Jolutle2646 2021-05-19 18:50|| 2021-05-19 18:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Steve Jobs wasn't Steve Jobs. He was in charge when they moved everything to China.

If Steve Jobs was running Silicon Valley in 1975 Steve Jobs wouldn't have been able to get his foot in the door. No assembly line to get that first job with.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-05-19 20:27|| 2021-05-19 20:27|| Front Page Top

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