Comment by nowherebeen

> Chinese people probably never expected this level of privacy to begin with, but we did and we can.

Taiwanese users data is also backed up to China. This was confirmed to me by an Apple Support in China. Whether you believe Taiwan is part of China or not, I can assure you users in Taiwan do expect this level to privacy.

What we are seeing is a slow deterioration of user privacy across the Apple ecosystem, not just the US. So even if you don’t care about Chinese users data, it does show what Apple management as a whole thinks of your data.