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Aditya Hadi Pratama · · 1 min readTesla sets up center to locally store Chinese user data following backlash
“US-based electric car manufacturer Tesla announced that it had set up a data center in mainland China to store the information collected from its users in the country,” The Economic Times reported, citing the company’s announcement in Weibo.
Details:
- The announcement comes nearly two months after Chinese authorities limited the use of Tesla vehicles among workers in state-owned companies and military personnel, citing concerns that images from car cameras could be sent to the US.
- Tesla has denied the allegation, saying that it plans to add more data centers in the country.
Context:
- China is the biggest electric-car market in the world, and it has become a battlefield for Tesla and local players such as Nio and Xpeng. Tesla sells one out of every four of its cars in the country, which has also allowed the US company to construct a wholly owned factory in Shanghai.
- Apple also stores the data of its Chinese customers in servers managed by a state-owned cloud service. However, the US tech titan is concerned that its user data can be easily accessed by the Chinese government.
Editing by Collin Furtado and Eileen C. Ang
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