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Re:Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human ... by bpye on Thursday February 28, 2019 @09:03PM (#19277364)
How do they determine if your iCloud account is Chinese. If you use a Chinese SIM card? Access from a Chinese IP? Neither? Both?

Depending on that it could still affect someone from the US for example, if they took a business trip to China. Or if something maliciously routed your internet traffic through China.

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Re:Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human ... by dloose on Friday March 01, 2019 @07:35AM (#19279964)
From the article:

> The change only affects users who set China as their country on Apple devices and doesn’t affect users who select Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan.

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Re:Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human ... by howlingfantods on Friday March 01, 2019 @12:11AM (#19278085)
iCloud accounts are region specific, it’s a pretty involved process to change it. You have to have a local payment source like a credit card.
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Re:Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human ... by dewey on Friday March 01, 2019 @02:20AM (#19278571)
Small correction: the credit card is not needed if you go through specific steps like a free app. Then you can select “none” as the payment method in every country I’ve tested so far.
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Re:Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human ... by bpye on Friday March 01, 2019 @02:20AM (#19278566)
Okay, this makes me a little more comfortable - does Apple state this as being how they determine data residency?
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