A Twitter user’s allegation that a tech advisor at Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Co (GCBD), which operate Apple Inc’s first data center in China, stole his personal messages and tried to extort money from him has raised concerns

Taiwan News 
Date: 2018/03/11
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—A Twitter user’s allegation that a tech adviser at Guizhou-Cloud

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Big Data Industry Co (GCBD), which operate Apple Inc’s first data center in China, stole his personal messages and tried to extort money from him has raised concerns and sparked public discussion, according to a report published by www.bannedbook.org on Friday.

Apple began to work with GCBD on February 28 in order to provide it’s iCloud remote storage service to local customers in compliance with Chinese Cybersecurity regulations, which require foreign companies that handle Chinese data to store that information on equipment physically located within the country.    [FULL  STORY]