Some folks on HN were confidently asserting that Apple escrows its encryption keys with Chinese-government owned hosting providers “to facilitate mass surveillance.” This statement is messy because it’s 1/4-true, 1/4-false, 1/2 unknown. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-censorship-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Back in 2018, Apple struck a deal where the iCloud data of Chinese users would be hosted in a Chinese state-owned cloud provider. This includes the servers that hold encryption keys for iCloud backups. That much is true.