Apple should not keep another secret in China | Business and Financial Issues
The most recent change that Apple makes on privacy in China, where it earns about 15% of its revenue.
Apple Inc says a new “privacy agreement” designed to disrupt online browsers from online providers and advertisers will not be available in China for regulatory reasons.
The issue was one of the privacy protections Apple announced at its annual software developer on Monday, most recently in an effort to test the company’s years of efforts to reduce compliance with its advertisers and other advertisers.
Apple’s idea of leaving China in China is the latest in a series of secretive developments in a company that accounts for about 15% of its revenue.
In 2018, Apple moved digital keys that are used to block iCloud users ’access to Chinese users, allowing administrators to use domestic courts for more information.
The Communist Party of China monitors the use of highly controlled internet. Under President Xi Jinping, the chances of a confrontation in China have diminished, as regulation has grown.
No more ‘fingerprints’
Apple’s “stand-alone” application sends a web page to a server hosted by Apple, where it removes information called an IP address. From there, Apple sends people back to a second server stored by a third party that gives the user an IP address temporarily and sends the visitors to its site.
Using an external party during the second reception is intentional, Apple said, so that even Apple does not know the user and the page the user is visiting.
Apple has said it will no longer offer “secret reception” in Belarus, Colombia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Uganda and the Philippines.
Apple has not yet announced who it will use abroad but said it wants to name them later. This will probably not be available to the public until the end of this year.
IP addresses can be used to track users in a variety of ways, including the most important element in “fingerprints,” systems in which advertisers connect together to separate data to identify the user. Both Apple and Alphabet Inc of Google prohibit this.
In addition to what Apple has done in the past, “private communications” do “prevent IP addresses from working as a fingerprint,” Charles Farina, head of manufacturing at Adswerve at a digital marketing company, told Reuters.
It also prevents advertisers from using IP addresses to identify a person’s whereabouts, he said.
