Policy Observatory
How Apple is paving the way to a ‘cloud dictatorship’ in China
The US-based global tech giant Apple Inc. is set to hand over the operation of its iCloud data center in mainland China to a local corporation called Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD) by February 28, 2018. Once the agreement is signed, GCBD — a company solely owned by the state — would get a key that can access all iCloud user data in China, legally.
Country: Global
Domains: IG
Stakeholder: Industry
Tags: China, access to data, cloud computing