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> who hesitated

Source? I was not aware there was any hesitation or even disagreement from Apple's side. Is there an Apple statement saying they disagree w/ Chinese government requests similar to the statements saying they disagree w/ US government requests? In their absence, is it safe to assume they agree since they have shown that when they disagree they make public statements?

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They didn't really hesitate, they just dodged questions. Apple moved their user data and keystore to local datacenters in China [1]. Apple even updated their TOS and forced their Chinese users to accept (or drop service) to reflect this.

As of July, these datacenters were nationalized [2], giving the Chinese government access to all Apple user data.

It took only two years to go from refusing the FBI request for one user to handing over the encryption keys to millions of users.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...

[2] https://mashable.com/article/china-government-apple-icloud-d...

fyi neither of your links work.

Fixed - thanks.

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