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Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by ekanes on Monday December 17, 2018 @07:53PM (#18703680)
Interesting. A friend was just telling me about how inside Apple, the privacy and security teams have special powers. They can shut things down if they put customer data at risk, or allow them conditionally based on needed changes, etc. Very different culturally.
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Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by anonymouzz on Monday December 17, 2018 @08:19PM (#18703818)
Pretty sure that's generally the case at Google too:

> Under normal company protocol, analysis of people’s search queries is subject to tight constraints and should be reviewed by the company’s privacy staff, whose job is to safeguard user rights. But the privacy team only found out about the 265.com data access after The Intercept revealed it, and were “really pissed,” according to one Google source.

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Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by lclarkmichalek on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @08:15AM (#18706189)
Is it? Apple stores Chinese customer's iCloud keys in Chinese data centers run by a state owned company. https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/17/apples-icloud-user-data-in...
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