Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Apple has handed out information about 10 000 users - Hardware.no

Slipper information for PRISM-disclosure.

In light of the surveillance scandal was revealed tidligre a month, did the U.S. Justice Department last week agreed that the affected IT companies would have to account for some of informarsjonen that the government can recoup.

Soon after, Microsoft and Facebook out information on how many requests they received from the government, and now follows by Apple.

Up to 10 000

a message as the company embarked on its pages yesterday , they write that they received between 4000 and 5000 requests for access to user data from various authorities during the last six months. Between 9000 and 10 000 persons will be affected by the requests.

Most of the requests Apple received came against the background of ongoing investigations of criminal activities, including robbery and burglary . The authorities also wanted several times to help locate people, including children and Alzheimer’s patients who were disappeared, or to prevent potential suicide.

also write Apple that evaluates every request they receive from the government and it is they who ultimately decide whether to hand over information or not. On several annledninger to Apple have refused to give up the information, because the request was too thin legally justified.

class=”c3″> In addition, Apple still refuses to be involved in the PRISM program to the NSA, like all the others involved technology companies.

messages are encrypted

Apple potentially sitting on a mountain of information about their users. In recent years, services like iMessage, FaceTime and Siri got hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

Fortunately encrypted both iMessage and FaceTime calls before they go out of your phone, making it impossible for Apple or any other person to view content. Furthermore, Apple says that they are not able to use the information they get from the use of maps their services and Siri, to track individuals.

, like Microsoft and Facebook, Apple can not go out with the number of the inquiry they received falling under FISA program, a program in which all requests are secret.

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(Sources: BBC, Apple)

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