?Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China? ? der New-York-Times-Artikel von Jack Nicas, Raymond Zhong und Daisuke Wakabayashi ? kratzt mehrere Wundstellen auf. Im Fokus sollten allerdings die iCloud-Daten von chinesischen Nutzer:innen stehen.

Apple?s China team warned Mr. Cook that China could shut down iCloud in the country if it did not comply with the new cybersecurity law. So Mr. Cook agreed to move the personal data of his Chinese customers to the servers of a Chinese state-owned company. That led to a project known inside Apple as ?Golden Gate.?
Apple encrypts customers? private data in its iCloud service. But for most of that information, Apple also has the digital keys to unlock that encryption.
The location of the keys to the data of Chinese customers was a sticking point in talks between Apple and Chinese officials, two people close to the deliberations said. Apple wanted to keep them in the United States; the Chinese officials wanted them in China. […] But eight months later, the encryption keys were headed to China. That surprised at least two Apple executives who worked on the initial negotiations and who said the move could jeopardize customers? data. It is unclear what led to the change.
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The documents show that GCBD employees would have physical control over the servers, while Apple employees would largely monitor the operation from outside the country. The security experts said that arrangement al...