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Chinese Communist Party Members To Preside Over Apple’s Data Center
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Chinese communist party members plan on presiding over Apple’s pending data center in the Guizhou province through an oversight committee, according to a Reuters report published Monday.
To start building its data center in China, the American tech conglomerate had to capitulate to the demands of the country’s government, which includes that companies operating in the country must store select data domestically. This mandate became official June 1, the day the China’s Cybersecurity Law went into effect. Along with compliance, Apple’s apparent obsequiousness was also contributed by its desire to speed up its iCloud capabilities for local users, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Communist party members in Guizhou will chair the working committees to ensure that Apple abides by its new law, a measure the country alleges is for allowing the state to fully protect customer data. Critics contest the statute, arguing it will be used to gather personal information on political dissidents or steal proprietary trade secrets.
The board would be comprised of roughly 10 members, reports Reuters.
Tech companies in general are often forced to choose between cutting themselves off to the extremely large market in China, or acquiescing to ostensibly authoritarian requirements imposed by the country’s government, and receiving subsequent backlash. Apple is choosing the latter because a company’s innate, top priority is to make profit. If yielding to China will be good or bad for its bottom line is not yet clear.
Apple did not respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment by time of publication.
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