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Apple makes Navalny app available once again in App Store in Russia
Apple has resumed allowing users in Russia to download an app run by supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny after criticism that…
Apple and Google pull Alexei Navalny app in Russia; opposition activists accuse Big Tech of caving to censorship
Opposition activists in Russia accused Apple and Google of caving in to Kremlin pressure on Friday after they removed an anti-government…
China will limit kids to 3 hours per week of online gaming
China is banning kids from gaming online for more than three hours per week. Under 2019 rules, people under 18 years old were allowed…
Chinese Communist Party cracks down on private sector handling of data
China is tightening control over information gathered by companies, expanding the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown…
Russia demands Apple, Google ban Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s app
Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has demanded that Apple and Alphabet’s Google ban Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s app…
Apple declines to testify at second congressional hearing probing tech’s ties to China
Apple and TikTok have each declined a request from U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) to testify at a March congressional hearing that would have probed…
Propaganda 2.0: Chinese Communist Party’s message gets tech upgrade
In a bright red office in south Beijing, some of China’s most studious Communist Party members…
China calls out Apple for ‘incorrect’ references to Taiwan and Hong Kong
One of China’s top government-linked think tanks has called out Apple Inc…
China orders short video apps to censor all content, including user comments, political satire and sexual moaning
Video app operators are not allowed to ridicule, satirize, oppose, defame the socialist mode, theory, system, and culture with Chinese characteristics, and the country’s major principles and policies…
Chinese Apple iCloud accounts are now based in a state-run cloud
Apple users in China have had their data migrated to a local cloud, run by the Red State’s mobile telecoms provider…
Apple removes apps with CallKit framework from the App Store in China
It’s been nearly a year since Apple began removing all VPN apps from the App Store in China…
UBS: Apple’s iPhone unlikely to recover damaged Chinese marketshare
CEO Tim Cook once envisioned China as Apple’s next big market, set to eclipse even the U.S. in revenue…
Amnesty International accuses Apple of betraying Chinese iCloud users
Amnesty International says Apple Inc is creating the Orwellian future it once envisioned…
China’s internet censors ban use of the letter ‘N’
The Chinese government demonstrated just how much power it has over the opinions of its billion-strong population…
Apple is under fire for moving iCloud data to China; Amnesty International blasts move
Apple’s latest move in China has privacy advocates and human rights groups worried…
Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human rights fears
When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users’ iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center…
Apple’s China lesson: Think different, but not too different
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook will co-chair the Chinese government’s showcase global business forum…
Apple in talks for first order from a Chinese chipmaker
Apple is in talks with state-backed Yangtze Memory Technologies to buy NAND flash chips…
Apple warns users who created Apple IDs overseas on dodging China’s new data law
China introduced a new cyber security law on June 1 that imposes tougher controls over data…
How U.S. iCloud users can ensure their data isn’t migrated to state-owned servers in China
While Apple yesterday warned Chinese customers that their data would be migrated to local servers…
Apple sets date to turn over cloud operations to a state-owned data center in China
Apple Inc. said it will turn over its cloud operations in China to a state-owned local partner…
U.S. Senate Republican Marco Rubio hits Tim Cook for kowtowing to China
Apple and Tim Cook are again under fire for their relationship with the Chinese government…
