Apple has begin maintain some of its Formosan user ’ personal data point in China , Reuters unwrap yesterday . That ’s significant because it is the first technical school company to lay in information in the notoriously snooper - happy country , thus raising concerns that the data might be look at by federal agency .
Apple is spinning the move as upright tidings for users of its iCloud service , because it says it will help increase the speed and dependableness of it . The rationale is that the close client are to the data centers , it will make it quicker for them to access their stuff .
Perhaps worry to some , the information will be stack away on China Telecom , a land - insure company . Apple officialstold theWall Street Journalthat its information will be encrypted , so the troupe ca n’t see anything .
Apple free a statement , enjoin :
“ Apple takes user security and concealment very seriously . We have added China Telecom to our listing of data point center provider to increase bandwidth and improve performance for our customer in mainland China . ”
But is that good enough ? Not really , according to Jeremy Goldkorn , a music director at Danwei.com , a company that monitors Chinese cyberspace .
“ If they ’re make out that the data point is protected and inviolable that ’s a slight disingenuous because if they need to operate a clientele here , that ’d have to follow with demand from the federal agency , ” he tell apart Reuters . “ On the other hand if they do n’t lay in Chinese user data on a Chinese host they ’re basically risking a crackdown from the authorization . ”
We ’ll have to see how this experimentation goes to see if other companies , like Google , who do n’t use Chinese information repositing centers because of privacy concerns , will want to change their minds . [ Reuters ]
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