Amnesty International is criticizing Apple’s move to use a local Chinese company to handle the company’s iCloud service for its Chinese customers, CNET reports. Amnesty International remarked that the move was a betrayal of its Chinese iCloud users. Nicholas Bequelin, East Asia director at Amnesty International, said, “Tim Cook is not being upfront with Apple’s Chinese users when insisting that their private data will always be secure. Apple’s pursuit of profits has left Chinese iCloud users facing huge new privacy risks.” In a statement, Apple responded that over the course of eight weeks, the company sent a series of emails and notifications to inform its Chinese customers of the transfer to allow them the flexibility to make changes. Apple also noted that the transfer was necessary to comply with new Chinese laws pertaining to how customer data is stored in the country.
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