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> Ironically enough, Google is one of the few major tech companies that can't be compelled to hand over information to China.

Interestingly enough, Google gets bashed most on HN than all the other companies in this list combined.

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And Apple get lauded for its privacy efforts. If you point out the hypocrisy, you quickly get down voted.

Both are PRISM partners so meh.

There is some difference though. You can turn off iCloud and then device lock an Apple phone and make it rather secure. No such option exists for an Android phone. I agree with your general idea though, but I want to nuance. Apple gets too much credit for their privacy efforts, and Google gets too little shit.

Apples efforts only look good compared to Amazon, Google and Microsoft, but that's because they are so bad.

Android does not have an iCloud equivalent, so naturally Android is not going to have a setting to disable sharing cloud data with the Chinese government. Google Drive doesn't work in China because Google isn't kowtowing the way Apple is.

Just a small correction, Facebook is also not in China, IIRC.

It lead to some truly fantastic moments with Zuck grandstanding while every other company was being bashed for bowing down to China last year. Truly bizarro world.

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