Apple for the day

Sam Frizell has a Time article from the Financial Times about data protection in China:

Apple has insisted that it does not pass on data collected from Chinese iPhone users to US intelligence services, denying claims made on Chinese state media that its iPhone presents a security risk to customers by compromising location data.
Apple said that it "does not track users’ locations. Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so”, according to the Financial Times.
A report on CCTV, the widely influential Chinese state-owned broadcaster, warned that the iPhone could track users using its positioning technology, and “view the user’s home address, unit information, and whereabouts.” The report also claimed that information could be passed to US intelligence services.
In an explanation published on its homepage in China, Apple said it has “never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services,” the Financial Times reports.
Apple also said that users location services can only be accessed by the device’s owner when they enter their passcode.

Rico says this is pretty funny, coming from a country whose hackers are trying to get into our intelligence services all the time...