Chinese state media on branded Apple’s iPhone a hazard to national security because of the smartphone’s skill to way and time-stamp user location.
A report by broadcaster CCTV criticised the iPhone’s “Frequent Locations” function for allowing users to be tracked and information about them open.
“This is extremely sensitive data,” said a researcher interviewed by the broadcaster. If the data were access, it could expose an entire country’s economic situation and “even state secrets,” the researcher said.
Apple was not presented for instant comment. Apple has commonly come under fire from Chinese state media, which accused the company of provided that user data to US intelligence agencies and have called for ‘severe punishment’. It has also been criticised for poor customer service.
The California-based company is not the only US firm to bear from Chinese media ire.
Google services have been disrupted in China for over a month, while the central government procurement office has debarred new government computers from using Microsoft’sWindows 8 operating system.
Other US hardware firms such as Cisco Systems and IBM have experienced a backlash in China from what analysts and companies have termed the ‘Snowden Effect’, after US spying revelations unconfined last year by former US National Security Agency service provider Edward Snowden.
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