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China Bans iPhone Use for Government Officials at Work

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Re: China Bans iPhone Use for Government Officials at Work

#14

I mean, seems fair to have a huge US company with an history of giving most of their data to their government to not be used.

Apple has a history of giving most of their data to the US government? Did you mean to say “Apple has had to follow federal law when handed subpoena requests”?

The problem is when the data is related with foreign country that's been asked by the US govt.

Can apple not follow it, and will they protect it? Maybe someone with better knowledge on this topic can answer.

Re: China Bans iPhone Use for Government Officials at Work

#16

I mean, seems fair to have a huge US company with an history of giving most of their data to their government to not be used.

History? You mean like all those times they refuse to open phones for the government? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...

Re: China Bans iPhone Use for Government Officials at Work

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They’ve banned Teslas from government compounds and big state-owned companies for a few years. There are even occasional reports of Tesla cars being diverted from certain roads for reasons the police wouldn’t disclose. Edit: It could be retaliations against US sanctions. But there’s a difference: All these kinds of orders are made without any written documents. These are just part of the general decline of the rule o…

Tesla concern is autopilot cameras shipping images back to Tesla, which is valid; Tesla does ship stills back for training if enabled in the data sharing configuration.

Also Tesla is an absolute security nightmare.

Re: China Bans iPhone Use for Government Officials at Work

#20

I mean, seems fair to have a huge US company with an history of giving most of their data to their government to not be used.

Apple does not have a history of giving most of their data to the US government. I'd go so far as to say that they have given less than .00001% of their data to the US government and they were probably legally obligated to do so. Apple actually has a history of not bending over to the government.
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