Mashable reports that government-owned China Telecom took over the iCloud data from Guizhou-Cloud Big Data, meaning Apple iCloud data in China is now stored by a state-owned company. Apple had previously announced its first data center in China, in partnership with Guizhou-Cloud Big Data, to help the company comply with a government policy requiring foreign service providers to store data on Chinese citizens in the country. China Telecom’s takeover of the iCloud data has been met with concern over the potential impact it will have on censorship and users’ privacy.
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