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.
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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