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Friendly reminder that Apple shares their iCloud data (users' docs, pictures, messages, etc.) with the Chinese government in exchange for market access:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...

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Apple shares icloud data with the US government as well.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelin...

That's per warrant requests for individuals, IIRC.

Apple shares with the CCP for all users by default.

I think it's worth clarifying that this is just Chinese users, though that was probably clear to most. The Chinese and rest-of-the-world iClouds are completely separate.

It's very comforting to know that they treat the data of their Chinese users with such respect. For a company that insists on privacy being a human right, they sure do seem to have a flexible definition of human!

Take it up with the CCP.

Not that I really disagree. I wish more companies would refuse to do business under those kinds of conditions.

The point is that Apple sells their user data for market access. Google won't even do that.

This is antithetical to Apple's privacy branding.

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