Apple's Security Compromises in China Outlined in New Report Monday May 17, 2021 1:46 pm PDT by Juli Clover Apple has been making concessions on privacy and security in order to continue building and selling its devices in China, according to an in-depth report from The focal point of the report is Apple's decision to comply with a 2016 law that requires all personal information and data collected in China to be kept in China, which has led Apple to build a China data center and relocate Chinese customers' iCloud data to China, managed by a Chinese company. Apple fought against China's efforts to gain more control over customer data, but given China's leverage over Apple, Apple had no choice but to comply. There were initially disagreements over the digital keys that can unlock iCloud encryption. Apple wanted to keep them in the United States, while Chinese officials wanted them in China.