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[darpa_escapee]

Apple detects whether a Chinese user uses the Taiwanese flag emoji[1] in order to corrupt its display. Nothing is stopping them from pinging back home when a Chinese citizen says or reads the wrong words.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2018/07/11/apple-china-taiwan-flag/

[xvector → darpa_escapee]

But they have not hired a team of 300 engineers to notify the government of the use of the emoji. Apple still uses the Secure Enclave in the iPhone in China. Apple still end-to-end encrypts most data sent to iCloud with the Enclave.

Google and Apple's products here are so disparate in how they infringe on user privacy that the comparison isn't even warranted.

[dmitrygr → xvector]

iCloud data for Chinese users is stored in China on servers owned by a Chinese company. Chinese law requires this and apple complies.

[xvector → dmitrygr]

Again, this is irrelevant if the data contained is E2E encrypted by the Secure Enclave.

[dmitrygr → xvector]

data in iCloud servers is NOT encrypted. Apple has provided it to law enforcement on request. They are quite open about it.