“There have been many reports that Apple is working with the Chinese Communist Party and the Russian regime to move data centers (processing. - RT ) so that governments can organize massive surveillance,” he said.

He also said that Apple has disabled a number of options that were used by the "advocates of democracy."

According to him, if a technology company such as Apple is “ready to comply with the requirements of authoritarian regimes,” then it has no excuses if it refuses to cooperate with “countries where there is a rule of law that respects privacy and civil liberties.”

Earlier, Telegram founder Pavel Durov called the iCloud service a tool for tracking users.