Some Chinese Apple users warned by firm on dodging new data law


  • TECH
  • Friday, 12 Jan 2018

Chinese customer takes a look as his new iPhone X at the Apple store in Beijing on November 3, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR

BEIJING: Some Chinese users of Apple Inc's products who have created Apple IDs overseas to circumvent a new law that requires their personal data to be stored within China say they have been warned by the tech giant that they risk losing the data. 

China introduced a new cyber security law on June 1 that imposes tougher controls over data than in Europe and the United States, including mandating that companies store all data within China and pass security reviews. 

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