How Apple Empowers China, and Disempowers America

How Apple Empowers China, and Disempowers America
A woman uses her iPhone at an Apple store in Shanghai, China on Sept. 25, 2015. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images
Anders Corr
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Apple has a new privacy feature, but not for its customers in China, nor for customers on a list of usual-suspect dictatorships that tend to tag along with China. The new privacy feature masks a customer’s unique IP address from advertisers, internet service providers, governments, and other third parties with which the customer interacts. Thus third parties can’t discover the customer’s identity or location, and Apple will not know which websites its customers are visiting. That means the privacy of Apple customers improves.
Anders Corr
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
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