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This means trusting AWS’s privacy policies too, which users aren’t always aware of or expecting when Apple promises full control. It’s about honest transparency.

We pay a premium for Apple's privacy restrictions and then end up being tricked to rely on Amazon's. It is false advertisement to say the least....

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When Apple says your data doesn't leave their servers, that doesn't mean those servers have to be in their own datacenters or that Apple doesn't have other vendors that help them deliver their service. It also doesn't mean those companies have access to your unencrypted data. That data also, by necessity, likely traverses other networks in encrypted form on its way between you and Apple.

Apple claims that data they are in full control of your data from Safari, Maps, and Spotlight etc.... Data center or not, this contradicts both the spirit and letter of that promise.

This is basic logic.

If you have any evidence that Amazon is accessing the data of their leased tenants, that would be an earth shattering indictment of the entire cloud industry

It would be akin to accusing Datapipe or any other provider of pulling drives out of any client with racked servers in their data centers.

And that’s exactly why high security applications don’t use cloud like this; because that can never be guaranteed by some policy compliance certificate. That’s the only thing stopping them from pulling drives, etc.

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