Apple’s troubles in China have just started’ after it removed more than 400 VPN apps

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com>
> Date: August 9, 2017 at 2:49:14 PM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Cc: ip <ip () listbox com>, "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann () csl sri com>
> Subject: ‘Apple’s troubles in China have just started’ after it removed more than 400 VPN apps
>
> Apple has come under considerable criticism following its decision to agree to a Chinese government request to remove 
> VPN apps from its local App Store. Virtual private networks allow people in China to access sites blocked by the 
> government, and to ensure that authorities cannot track the sites they visit.
>
> App-tracking site ASO100.com says that the company has so far removed more than 400 VPN apps. But while Apple is 
> trying to maintain good relationships with China by complying with such requests, analysts and tech commentators 
> believe that its troubles with the country ‘have just started’ …
>
> https://9to5mac.com/2017/08/09/apple-china-vpn-censorship/
>
>
> -- 
> Geoff.Goodfellow () iconia com
> living as The Truth is True
> http://geoff.livejournal.com  



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