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Chinese company will operate local Apple iCloud accounts, starting February

Milen Yanachkov
By Milen Yanachkov @MilenYanachkov
Jan 10, 2018, 4:55 AM
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In a bid to comply with the China's cloud computing regulations, Apple has granted permission to local company Guizhou on the Cloud Big Data (GCBD) to operate Apple iCloud services on the territory of mainland China. The contract between the two companies comes into force next month, iCloud accounts outside of China won't be affected by the change.

Apple has confirmed that both companies will have access to the data stored on the cloud servers. GCBD is owned by the Guizhou provincial government in southern China, where Apple last year invested $1bn in a data centre to meet local regulations, which require foreign companies to their data related to Chinese operations in the country itself.

All relevant iCloud data will be transferred starting 28 February, Apple confirmed. Customers living in mainland China who do not want to use iCloud operated by GCBD are given the option to terminate their iCloud accounts, according to the BBC.

Apple has begun sending out the following message to iCloud users (pictured left) in mainland China.

"With effect from 28 February 2018, iCloud services associated with your Apple ID will be operated by GCBD. Use of the services and all the data you store with iCloud—including photos, videos, documents and backups—will be subject to the Terms and Conditions of iCloud operated by GCBD. Your iCloud service will not be affected by this change."

The U.S. tech giant reassures its customers that user data privacy is of the utmost importance for the two companies, and that "no backdoors will be created into any of our systems". However, many people online are sharing concerns over possible monitoring of user data and interactions by the Chinese government.

source: BBC

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