Apple InternationalCloud Storage

[Anonymous]

How does Apple (or other IT companies) decide where your data resides in the cloud? If your data is stored abroad on a server farm how can you find out? If it is in China, for example, how can you find out what their laws are about protecting your data? Can the claim rights to your data in that country that may be different than the rights another country extends? Let’s say the US considers only the author of a file as the data owner, but China says, the cloud server companies in their country can use the data stored on their servers belongs to the company as much as the author/user. Does this happen? How can you fully protect your data?

[Anonymous]

I doubt anything from here is stored in China, except data from Chinese users. As some people say, the cloud is just someone else’s computer, so I wouldn’t put too much faith in it regardless.

[Anonymous]

^^ that should say Chinese users in China, or maybe the region.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How does Apple (or other IT companies) decide where your data resides in the cloud? If your data is stored abroad on a server farm how can you find out? If it is in China, for example, how can you find out what their laws are about protecting your data? Can the claim rights to your data in that country that may be different than the rights another country extends? Let’s say the US considers only the author of a file as the data owner, but China says, the cloud server companies in their country can use the data stored on their servers belongs to the company as much as the author/user. Does this happen? How can you fully protect your data?

You signed away the rights and privacy to your data once you picked up the phone or device and used their services.