Democracies must hold their companies to higher standards in China

Earlier this month, the New York Times published the findings of its multi-year investigation into how Apple has risked Chinese customers’ data and the company’s significant role in the Chinese Communist Party’s censorship regime. In response to new data localization laws passed by the Communist regime in 2017, Apple agreed to transfer all data of Chinese users from its private data centers and onto networks owned and run by a Chinese state-owned company. The consequences of the move have been o…