“Apple Inc is hiring a head of law enforcement in Beijing to deal with user data requests from China’s government, according to a public job listing, after it last month began storing private data on Chinese soil for the first time,” Paul Carsten and Gerry Shih report for Reuters.
“According to the job listing, posted on professional networking site LinkedIn, the position will handle the ‘increasing number of third-party requests for access to Apple controlled data within China,'” Carsten and Shih report. “The hiring of a head of law enforcement demonstrates the trade-off that comes with placing data storage within China, a move some technology companies avoid. Having a server in the country can provide faster service to domestic customers, but it also means China’s government can demand those servers’ data, as is the case in other countries.”
Carsten and Shih report, “Apple declined to comment, but referred Reuters to the company’s new privacy policy including a section on government data requests. According to the Apple posting, the candidate would need to “educate requesters as to the data that can and cannot be supplied in particular circumstances while maintaining good working relations with requesters.””
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Now it will turn into a matter of who educates who.
Very well phrased. Chinese elders do not look with favor on those who do not comply. Good luck, Happiness, Long Life to the successful candidate, their relatives, their family businesses, any acquaintances, and neighbors. Fortune cookie say: “Not every soil can bear all things. Be practical.” Work for awhile, then transfer out before the next crackdown blows up.
Just hire the son of the chairman of the communist party, then all will be good.